Líliam Lins

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”
― Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia

“New Year's Day is every man's birthday.”
― Charles Lamb

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”
― Charles Lamb

“Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!”
― Charles Lamb