It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.
Herman MelvilleBachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.
Herman MelvilleThe dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.
Herman MelvilleAnd what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
Herman Melville