Silence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLEThink not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
HERMAN MELVILLEAs for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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 MELVILLETruth is in things, and not in words.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLEMeditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLEFailure is the true test of greatness
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 MELVILLEI cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhat plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
HERMAN MELVILLE