It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
Herman MelvilleNo mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
Herman MelvilleIt is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.
Herman MelvilleWhen the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
Herman Melville