I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
HERMAN MELVILLEI cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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 MELVILLEIgnorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
HERMAN MELVILLEI know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is not down in any map; true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLELife’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhen among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
HERMAN MELVILLEDream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLEAll deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
HERMAN MELVILLEIn a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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 MELVILLETo produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
HERMAN MELVILLE