“Uncle Henry said he believed he had once seen the Judge at a levee and asked Cassius if he too was at the Bar. ‘No,’ said Cassius. ‘No, I do nothing at all.’ ‘Nothing?’ Uncle Henry, who had done nothing during the whole of his life, sounded shocked. ‘Nothing,’ Cassius repeated. He implied that it was enough that he should exist.”

“Uncle Henry said he believed he had once seen the Judge at a levee and asked Cassius if he too was at the Bar. ‘No,’ said Cassius. ‘No, I do nothing at all.’ ‘Nothing?’ Uncle Henry, who had done nothing during the whole of his life, sounded shocked. ‘Nothing,’ Cassius repeated. He implied that it was enough that he should exist.”

— Elizabeth Eliot