Do you expect a lady to come and propose to you ?" "No; I am willing to propose.

I think a great deal about it." "Tell me some of your thoughts." "Well," said Newman, slowly, "I want to marry very well." "Marry a woman of sixty, then," said Tristram.
"'Well' in what sense ?" "In every sense.

I shall be hard to please." "You must remember that, as the French proverb says, the most beautiful girl in the world can give but what she has." "Since you ask me," said Newman, "I will say frankly that I want extremely to marry.

It is time, to begin with: before I know it I shall be forty.

And then I'm lonely and helpless and dull.