One pang of far less anguish than the toothache, and all is over.

There is nothing heroic about it, I assure you! It is as common as going to bed; it is almost prosy.

LIFE is heroism, if you like; but death is a mere cessation of business.

And to make a rapid and rude exit off the stage before the prompter gives the sign is always, to say the least of it, ungraceful.
Act the part out, no matter how bad the play.

What say you ?' "And, balancing the dagger lightly on one finger, as though it were a paper-knife, he smiled at me with so much frank kindliness that it was impossible to resist him.