I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.