We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things... - Herman Melville

I am heartily sorry I ever wrote anything about you — it was paltry. Lord, when shall we be done growing? As long as we have anything more to do, we have done nothing. So, now, let us add Moby-Dick to our blessing, and step from that. Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens.

Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.