Those whose hearts are set, are most astonishingly easy to fool.

They are of cheap kidney.

Offer them a proposition of one hundred dollars for one, and they are like hungry pike snapping at the bait.

Offer a thousand dollars for one, or ten thousand for one, and they become sheer lunatic.

I am an old man, a very old man.
I like to live until I die--I mean, to live decently, comfortably, respectably." "And you like the voyages long?
I begin to see, sir.