Vain all endeavors to assume qualities not yours; or to conceal those you possess.

Incognitos, however desirable, are out of the question.

And thus aboard of all ships in which I have sailed, I have invariably been known by a sort of thawing-room title.

Not,--let me hurry to say,--that I put hand in tar bucket with a squeamish air, or ascended the rigging with a Chesterfieldian mince.

No, no, I was never better than my vocation; and mine have been many.