What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.
All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.