For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.
Herman MelvilleAn intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
Herman MelvilleNature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.
Herman Melville