Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.