Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.
Herman MelvilleI am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
Herman MelvilleFrom without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.
Herman Melville