For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. - Herman Melville

All mortal greatness is but disease.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

A man of true science... uses but few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; whereas the smatterer in science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.