To which he made answer, No; and that, thank God, nothing was lost of his.???[Seneca, Ep. 7.]???This also was the meaning of the philosopher Antisthenes, when he pleasantly said, that men should furnish themselves with such things as would float, and might with the owner escape the storm;???[Diogenes Laertius, vi. 6.] and certainly a wise man never loses anything if he have himself.