Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.
Herman MelvilleThere is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
Herman MelvilleHuman madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.
Herman Melville