The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head
Herman MelvilleSurrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?
Herman MelvilleIf Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.
Herman Melville