Drastic measures is Latin for a whopping. - Thomas Anstey Guthrie

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

How excellent is the saying of one of old: 'He that adventureth upon matrimony is like unto one who thrusteth his hand into a sack containing many thousands of serpents and one eel. Yet, if Fate so decree, he may draw forth the eel.'

I can’t call myself a busy man—unfortunately,” said Horace, with that frankness which scorns to conceal what other people know perfectly well already.