I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
“Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.”
“I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.”