He dyed his hair with great art, maintaining enough gray to suggest wisdom, but not so much as to suggest age. - Michael F. Flynn

There seemed no face within the cowl, only a black emptiness, and the notion sprang irresistibly to Dietrich’s mind that this was Death, now these dozen years overdue, treading a weary mountain trail in search of him. Then a flash of white showed within the shadow and Dietrich realized that it was only the angle of the sun that had made that hood seem so empty.

The philosophy of the likelihood of events concludes that folk from different worlds must have different forms.

Cigars were for talk; pipes for reflection.