"What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard." - Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia write comments | rate this quote "Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other." - Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1823 write comments | rate this quote "A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses." - Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1832 write comments | rate this quote "Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. " - Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, Witches and other Night Fears, 1823 write comments | rate this quote