He is so much older, and it is so much more difficult for him to portion out his employments with any regularity, which is his best preservative against fuss.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
Do you not know that a decent chill is a great preservative?
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
He was an unbeliever, and the author of the atheistic Letters from Thrasybulus to Leucippe on Natural and Revealed Religion, and perhaps of La Moisade, a criticism of the Pentateuch, translated by D. I. Eaton, as A preservative against Religious Prejudices.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler