The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
Herman MelvilleCannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.
Herman MelvilleIt is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
Herman MelvilleLet us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.
Herman Melville