You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhen the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
HERMAN MELVILLEBetter be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhat is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
HERMAN MELVILLEOnly the man who says no is free
HERMAN MELVILLEA whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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 MELVILLEGenius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLEI love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLEI am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLEThe sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLEA book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
HERMAN MELVILLE