Happy Happy Birthday

"Travel to a large and generous nature is as a new birth. Its legitimate tendency is to teach profound personal humility, while it enlarges the sphere of comprehensive benevolence till it includes the whole human race."

--From Herman Melville's 1859-1860 lecture on "Traveling: Its Pleasures, Pains, and Profits" as reconstructed by Merton M. Sealts, Jr., in Melville as Lecturer (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1957).