“Eighty-three years old. A lifetime of being a bachelor. This extended life of aloneness might have an effect on a man's character, might it not? Independence might have rusted into obstinacy.” CharacterAgeIndependenceAlonenessObstinacyBachelorhood Book:The Great Mistake Source: The Great Mistake
“A man dies at twenty and it is a great shame. He dies at thirty or forty and he has been taken from us too soon. But if one reaches the age of eighty-three, all the shock eventually begins to flow the other way, even in a murder case. The chief question becomes: How on earth did he survive so long?” AgeDeath Book:The Great Mistake Source: The Great Mistake