Candour’s the cement of friendship

The knowledge that one has a remedy within reach is often as effectual as the remedy itself, if not more so.

He had had a warning, a practical moral lesson which had merely arrived, as such things often do, rather after date.

Two or three days at sea are equivalent to at least as many weeks on shore.

Drastic measures is Latin for a whopping.

He was not a strong-minded man; but he had one quality which is almost as valuable a safeguard against temptation as strength of mind—namely, timidity.

“And you suppose that, knowing how I have changed, he will believe that!” she cried. “He will fire long before you can finish one of those fine sentences!”