I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEI know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEA whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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 MELVILLEThere’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 MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLEBeneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe eyes are the gateway to the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEAn utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
HERMAN MELVILLEHeaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
HERMAN MELVILLEAid my disillusionment, my friend!
HERMAN MELVILLEFame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
HERMAN MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLETis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
HERMAN MELVILLEIf you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLE