There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
HERMAN MELVILLEIn a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLEA man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLEThey talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
HERMAN MELVILLEFaith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
HERMAN MELVILLEAll round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
HERMAN MELVILLEFame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
HERMAN MELVILLEFriendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
HERMAN MELVILLETo know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
HERMAN MELVILLE