We think the feelings that are very serious in a man quite comical in a boy. - Charles Dickens

He had a cane, he had an eye-glass, he had a snuff-box, he had rings, he had wristbands, he had everything but any touch of nature; he was not like youth, he was not like age, he was not like anything in the world but a model of deportment.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.