Herman Melville Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891
Birthday: August 1
Death: September 28
all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.
source: Herman Melville (1963). “The Works of Herman Melville: Billy Budd, and other prose picecs”
topic: Miserable, Sin, Bostonians
