A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.
Herman MelvilleAll round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
Herman MelvilleForty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.
Herman Melville