Herman Melville Quotes on Behavior
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His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it.
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'At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.
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But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.