Men Quotes by Herman Melville

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

— Herman Melville

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

— Herman Melville

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

— Herman Melville

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

— Herman Melville

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

— Herman Melville

Only the man who says no is free

— Herman Melville

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

— Herman Melville

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

— Herman Melville

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

— Herman Melville

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

— Herman Melville

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

— Herman Melville

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

— Herman Melville

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

— Herman Melville

An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

— Herman Melville

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing…

— Herman Melville

What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide…

— Herman Melville

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is…

— Herman Melville

...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

— Herman Melville

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest…

— Herman Melville

Indolence is heaven's ally here, And energy the child of hell: The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the…

— Herman Melville

What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and…

— Herman Melville

But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives…

— Herman Melville

Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of…

— Herman Melville

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers…

— Herman Melville

That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his…

— Herman Melville

The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy…

— Herman Melville

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet,…

— Herman Melville

It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of…

— Herman Melville

All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to…

— Herman Melville

It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is…

— Herman Melville

“Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the…

— Herman Melville

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by…

— Herman Melville

And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever…

— Herman Melville

If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half…

— Herman Melville

It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to…

— Herman Melville

Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed…

— Herman Melville

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

— Herman Melville

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

— Herman Melville

“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

— Herman Melville

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

— Herman Melville