“It’s a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively unctuous that landsmen seem to regard the eating of him with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Go to the meat market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.' — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us? — 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 Image
“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 Image
“(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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
