Charles Lamb Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: February 10, 1775 - December 27, 1834
Birthday: February 10
Death: December 27
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.
source: Charles Lamb (1943). “A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia”
topic: Christian, Business, Communication, Dullness, Sundials, Silent Heart
