The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
— Charles Lamb
Famous Quotes
Severe and saintly righteousness Bought with his blood the marriage ring
Look upward, Feeble Ones! look up, and trustIn Jesus' sight they are not dead, but sleeping
Far transcend my weak invention.Who looks not to the skin, but heart.
The flouting infidel doth mock when Christians cry
I have something more to do than to feel.
I have had playmates, I have had companions,All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.