“love is profane, since it mortally reaches toward the heaven in ye!” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. — 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
We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Instinct and study, love and hate; Audacity-reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's heart, To wrestle with the angel -- Art.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“see how elastic our swift prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and… — 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
He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of… — 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
“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their… — 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
The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which ourfurther… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the… — 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
“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
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering… — 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
