The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
Charles Lamb Quotes
I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
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.
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
Presents, I often say, endear absents.
