Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.
People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.