Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.
Herman MelvilleThe Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.
Herman MelvilleAre not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
Herman MelvilleWhile nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.
Herman Melville