Drastic measures is Latin for a whopping

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

“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!”

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

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.

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

Models of manly beauty are rare out of novels, and seldom interesting in them.