In everything we undertake let us leave a little margin.

We tried, jokingly, to persuade Captain Berry, when off Cape Hatteras, to go down and get his breakfast, while we took his place and watched the course of the steamer.

He intimated to us that we were running too near the bar to allow a greenhorn to manage matters just there.

There is always danger in sailing near a coast, whether in ship or in plans and morals.

Do not calculate too closely on possibilities.