The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; Where as the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed —… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can notbe great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share
I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more… — Herman Melville Copy Share
War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. — Herman Melville Copy Share
