The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.
Herman MelvilleThat author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.
Herman Melville