At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.
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 MelvilleFor small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draughtโnay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
Herman Melville