In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLEIn a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLEBeneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
HERMAN MELVILLETo produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
HERMAN MELVILLEStay true to the dreams of thy youth.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
HERMAN MELVILLEReal strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
HERMAN MELVILLEFaith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLEThink not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLEDream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLEYet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLEGenius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
HERMAN MELVILLEOne of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
HERMAN MELVILLE