At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.
Herman MelvilleConsider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?
Herman MelvilleLove is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.
Herman MelvilleWar should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.
Herman Melville