Sub-Sub Author: Herman Melville Copy Quote More from Herman Melville “With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly tak…” “The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the d…” “All dies! and not aloneThe aspiring trees and men and grass;The poets' forms of…” “The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved…”