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Herman Melville Quotes
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People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things (Herman Melville Quotes)
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion (Herman Melville Quotes)
Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged (Herman Melville Quotes)
All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering (Herman Melville Quotes)
It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion (Herman Melville Quotes)
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused (Herman Melville Quotes)
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would (Herman Melville Quotes)
Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism (Herman Melville Quotes)
There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea (Herman Melville Quotes)
Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them (Herman Melville Quotes)
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author (Herman Melville Quotes)
The world’s a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow (Herman Melville Quotes)
It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie (Herman Melville Quotes)
The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible (Herman Melville Quotes)
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning (Herman Melville Quotes)
While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet (Herman Melville Quotes)
Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge (Herman Melville Quotes)
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation (Herman Melville Quotes)
Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn (Herman Melville Quotes)
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true (Herman Melville Quotes)
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind (Herman Melville Quotes)
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing (Herman Melville Quotes)
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth (Herman Melville Quotes)
Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after (Herman Melville Quotes)
Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure (Herman Melville Quotes)
How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population (Herman Melville Quotes)
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it (Herman Melville Quotes)
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on (Herman Melville Quotes)
Traveling takes the ink out of one’s pen as well as the cash out of one’s purse (Herman Melville Quotes)
Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled (Herman Melville Quotes)