Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and na… - Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

A good-natured woman...which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor.

I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true Time, which a man can properly call his own — that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's Time, not his.