"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 …"

"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."

"Drastic measures is Latin for a whopping."

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

"Candour’s the cement of friendship."

"No doubt they would tolerate him now for the Professor’s sake; but who would not rather be ignored than tolerated?"

"I can’t call myself a busy man—unfortunately,” said Horace, with that frankness which scorns to conceal what other pe…"

"“No doubt the fault was mine,” said the Professor, in a tone that implied the opposite."