Lamb, Charles

"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength."

"Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other." - Essays of Elia

"'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'" - Essays of Elia

"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." - Last Essays of Elia

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." - Table Talk