“Loss adjusters are noble men who frustrate and negate the bland promises of insurance. We act out of the great unbending principles in life: nothing is sure, nothing is certain, nothing is free, nothing is forever. It is a noble calling.”
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
“I will be brief: your noble son is mad:Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,What is't but to be nothing else but mad?”
“Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.”
“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,But young men think it is, and we were young.”
“Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name.”