F. Anstey

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

"“Veracity, as thou wilt learn,” answered the Jinnee, “is not invariably the Ship of Safety."

"He called to mind all the millionaires he had ever read or heard of; they didn’t seem to get much fun out of their riches. The majority of them were martyrs to dyspepsia. They were often weighed down …"

"“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!"

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

"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."

"“Wisely was it written: ‘Let him that desireth oblivion confer benefits—but the memory of an injury endureth for ever.’"

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