The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which
he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to
live it, is other people's time, not his.
-- Charles Lamb
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profi is ready to lay
down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he
has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances
for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man....