Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.
Herman MelvilleThere is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.
Herman MelvilleGenius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
Herman MelvilleThinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
Herman MelvilleI have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
Herman Melville