Frederick Locker-Lampson Quotes

The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful.

Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.

Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.