Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.
Herman MelvilleAll experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.
Herman MelvilleNature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.
Herman Melville