Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
Herman MelvilleThe sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.
Herman MelvilleThe sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.
Herman Melville