The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
Herman MelvilleIn their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.
Herman MelvilleA noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
Herman MelvilleA book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
Herman Melville