Charles Lamb Quotes

A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.

Art is the child of Nature.

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.

Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.

I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better.

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.