..for we all are dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.. - Herman Melville

His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would. From the last ills no being can save another; therein each man must be his own saviour. For the rest, whatever befall us, let us never train our murderous guns inboard; let us not mutiny with bloody pikes in our hands. Our Lord High Admiral will yet interpose; and though long ages should elapse, and leave our wrongs unredressed, yet, shipmates and world-mates! let us never forget, that, Whoever afflict us, whatever surround, Life is a voyage that's homeward-bound!

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.