“He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.”
“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.”
“He smelt of English sweat and English beer, and it was a good cure for dead faces.”
“The man may not be dead, but he was certainly stiff. And this had nothing to do with rigor mortis.”
“To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.”
“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”