Charles Lamb

"Presents, I often say, endear absents."

"If peradventure, Reader, it has been thy lot to waste the golden years of thy life—thy shining youth—in the irksome confinement of an office; to have thy prison days prolonged through middle age down …"

"From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me."

"Riches are chiefly good because they give us time."

"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 …"

"The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days."

"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."

"For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes to be present with the Lord."