Matthew Eldred

“Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me, and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-labourers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally, as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill humour or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”
― Henri Frédéric Amiel

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.”
― Henri Frédéric Amiel