Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville

Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. – Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville