An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would… — 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
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
Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It… — 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
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I say, I can not identify that thing which is called happiness, that thing whose token is a laugh, or a smile,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s… — 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
