"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."

"“And you suppose that, knowing how I have changed, he will believe that!” she cried. “He will fire long before you ca…"

"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."