Your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. - Charles Lamb

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone!
In whose capacious all-embracing leaves
The very marrow of tradition 's shown;
And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.