"A child's a plaything for an hour" — Charles Lamb

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time

Source: The Builders, The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.

Source: Hydriotaphia, cap. v

And love is something eternal, it changes its aspect but not its foundation.

Source: Vincent van Gogh Letters, letter 330 (18 March 1883)

Charles Lamb Quote