"At the age of twenty-five, he said to himself, I am neither here nor there..."

"he would go away easily, and begin a career which at five-and-twenty seemed probable enough in the inward order of things, where talent brings fame, and fame everything else which is delightful..."

"...when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind..."

"Shadrack was not the stock cartoon undertaker, although he would have made a good model for other stock cartoons..."

"He was now twenty-five, but looked any age between twenty and thirty..."

"In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him..."

"Dickie was lucky. What was he himself doing at twenty-five?"

"He was like a handsome house that has been let, furnished..."