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
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality! — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a… — 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
“Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“worship. And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a… — 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
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods. — 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
