"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others , the Secretary of the . He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe on…"

"Lamb was the first English writer of eminence whom Crabb Robinson tried to convince of the excellence of Goethe."

"Africa has always walked in my mind proudly upright, an African giant among the other continents, toes well dug into …"

"Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and d…"

"The buffalo's powerful head darkening the yellow grass, like the lion's imperative roar and the elephant's long, somn…"

"In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being: he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act …"

"Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril."

"Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side."