In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery. - Herman Melville

For the future of the freed slaves we may well be concerned; but the future of the whole country, involving the future of the blacks, urges a paramount claim upon our anxiety. Effective benignity, like the Nile, is not narrow in its bounty, and true policy is always broad.

And here Bartleby makes his home, sole spectator of a solitude which he has seen all populous- a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage!

but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade