For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print. - Charles Lamb

I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candle-light, and fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and irony itself — do these things go out with life? Can a ghost laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasant with him?

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.