To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

It is when suffering finds a voice and
sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

Mortality defines the human condition.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.