One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
HERMAN MELVILLEBetter to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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What 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?
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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For 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.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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When 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?
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Better 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.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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