Herman Melville
Submitted by Taran on Thu, 08/11/2005 - 20:37
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
sympathetic threads
Quotation about fibers and "sympathetic threads" linking humanity is actually by Henry Melvill, not Herman Melville. See melvilliana.com under "Riffs" (No. 2).