Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
HERMAN MELVILLEReal strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
HERMAN MELVILLEA smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
HERMAN MELVILLELife’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe eyes are the gateway to the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEOld age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
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 MELVILLEThe sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth is in things, and not in words.
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 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 MELVILLE