The knowledge that one has a remedy within reach is often as effectual as the remedy itself, if not more so. Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)
Two or three days at sea are equivalent to at least as many weeks on shore. Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)
He had had a warning, a practical moral lesson which had merely arrived, as such things often do, rather after date. Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)
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. Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)