Charles Lamb

Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

- Charles Lamb