Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLEFaith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLEI am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
HERMAN MELVILLEOne of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
HERMAN MELVILLEFor as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
HERMAN MELVILLEAid my disillusionment, my friend!
HERMAN MELVILLEFailure is the true test of greatness
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 MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEMy body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLEBeneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
HERMAN MELVILLELadies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
HERMAN MELVILLEMan is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
HERMAN MELVILLEDream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLEA whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
HERMAN MELVILLE