Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.