When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
Herman MelvilleIn some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.
Herman MelvilleThere's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.
Herman Melville