There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.
Herman Melvillebeauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.
Herman MelvilleCannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.
Herman Melville