Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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.