--- title: "29 May Quotes By Herman Melville" description: "29 May quotes by Herman Melville. Plus more from Herman Melville and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/herman-melville-162_conquest_the-march-of-conquest-through-wild-provi_942729.jpg" --- > [The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/the-march-of-conquest-through-wild-provinces-may-be-the-march-of-mind/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/herman-melville-162_conquest_the-march-of-conquest-through-wild-provi_942729.jpg) > [Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/nothing-may-help-or-heal-while-amor-incensed-remembers-wrong/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c9/herman-melville-162_amor_nothing-may-help-or-heal-while-amor-ince_1127787.jpg) > [I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/i-know-not-all-that-may-be-coming-but-be-it-what-it-will-i-ll-go-to/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfa/herman-melville-162_adventure_i-know-not-all-that-may-be-coming-but-be_1843073.jpg) > [If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/if-you-begin-the-day-with-a-laugh-you-may-nevertheless-end-it-with-a/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/640/herman-melville-162_ends_if-you-begin-the-day-with-a-laugh-you-ma_1313650.jpg) > [A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/a-thing-may-be-incredible-and-still-be-true-sometimes-it-is/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/210/herman-melville-162_being-true_a-thing-may-be-incredible-and-still-be-t_945618.jpg) > [We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/we-may-have-civilized-bodies-and-yet-barbarous-souls/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef5/herman-melville-162_body_we-may-have-civilized-bodies-and-yet-bar_2143756.jpg) > [We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/we-talk-of-the-turks-and-abhor-the-cannibals-but-may-not-some-of-them/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afd/herman-melville-162_afterlife_we-talk-of-the-turks-and-abhor-the-canni_3008382.jpg) > [Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/human-madness-is-oftentimes-a-cunning-and-most-feline-thing-when-you/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ed/herman-melville-162_cunning_human-madness-is-oftentimes-a-cunning-an_1759119.jpg) > [Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/men-there-are-who-having-quite-done-with-the-world-all-its-merely/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1c/herman-melville-162_done_men-there-are-who-having-quite-done-with_185046.jpg) > [Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/whatever-has-made-or-does-make-or-may-make-music-should-be-held/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da7/herman-melville-162_bits_whatever-has-made-or-does-make-or-may-ma_2645198.jpg) > [Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/our-institutions-have-a-potent-digestion-and-may-in-time-convert-and/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f66/herman-melville-162_aliens_our-institutions-have-a-potent-digestion_1185956.jpg) > [If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/if-a-well-constituted-individual-refrains-from-blazoning-aught-amiss/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/803/herman-melville-162_candor_if-a-well-constituted-individual-refrain_2719408.jpg) > [And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/and-yet-self-knowledge-is-thought-by-some-not-so-easy-who-knows-my/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ba/herman-melville-162_dear_and-yet-self-knowledge-is-thought-by-som_2668773.jpg) > [It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/it-may-seem-strange-that-of-all-men-sailors-should-be-tinkering-at/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ad/herman-melville-162_diversion_it-may-seem-strange-that-of-all-men-sail_1551749.jpg) > [Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/strange-as-it-may-seem-there-is-nothing-in-which-a-young-and/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3da/herman-melville-162_advantage_strange-as-it-may-seem-there-is-nothing_52235.jpg) > [Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/books-gentlemen-are-a-species-of-men-and-introduced-to-them-you/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/617/herman-melville-162_book_books-gentlemen-are-a-species-of-men-and_92171.jpg) > [I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/i-don-t-know-but-a-book-in-a-man-s-brain-is-better-off-than-a-book/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/490/herman-melville-162_better-off_i-don-t-know-but-a-book-in-a-man-s-brain_116030.jpg) > [Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/where-is-there-such-an-one-who-has-not-a-thousand-times-been-struck/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/147/herman-melville-162_earth_where-is-there-such-an-one-who-has-not-a_1338839.jpg) > [For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/for-small-erections-may-be-finished-by-their-first-architects-grand-2/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e98/herman-melville-162_architect_for-small-erections-may-be-finished-by-t_2642772.jpg) > [We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/we-may-have-civilized-bodies-and-yet-barbarous-souls-we-are-blind-to/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e61/herman-melville-162_blind_we-may-have-civilized-bodies-and-yet-bar_2363245.jpg) > [The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/the-grand-principles-of-virtue-and-honor-however-they-may-be/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/575/herman-melville-162_action_the-grand-principles-of-virtue-and-honor_2099062.jpg) > [Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/let-us-pray-that-the-great-historic-tragedy-of-our-time-may-not-have/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/735/herman-melville-162_bards_let-us-pray-that-the-great-historic-trag_1550423.jpg) > [For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/for-as-when-the-red-cheeked-dancing-girls-april-and-may-trip-home-to/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77d/herman-melville-162_april_for-as-when-the-red-cheeked-dancing-girl_670657.jpg) > [However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/however-baby-man-may-brag-of-his-science-and-skill-and-however-much/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b0/herman-melville-162_baby_however-baby-man-may-brag-of-his-science_2194115.jpg) > [Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhancethe true dignity of a prosperous American, do but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/those-peculiar-social-sensibilities-nourished-by-our-own-peculiar/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6df/herman-melville-162_acceptance_those-peculiar-social-sensibilities-nour_683289.jpg) > [I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/i-have-no-objection-to-any-person-s-religion-be-it-what-it-may-so/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a7/herman-melville-162_arguing_i-have-no-objection-to-any-person-s-reli_2739260.jpg) > [There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/there-was-about-all-the-romans-a-heroic-tone-peculiar-to-ancient-life/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/212/herman-melville-162_ancient_there-was-about-all-the-romans-a-heroic_1445236.jpg) > [That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/that-author-who-draws-a-character-even-though-to-common-view/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/herman-melville-162_books_that-author-who-draws-a-character-even-t_277341.jpg) > [To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/to-anybody-who-can-hold-the-present-at-its-worth-without-being/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95b/herman-melville-162_approach_to-anybody-who-can-hold-the-present-at-i_1673713.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Herman Melville > [“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/and-man-though-idiotic-and-knowing-not-what-he-does-yet-full-of-the/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/but-were-the-coming-narrative-to-reveal-in-any-instance-the-complete/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [“(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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/on-ralph-waldo-emerson-i-love-all-men-who-dive-any-fish-can-swim-near/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/so-seemed-it-to-me-as-i-stood-at-her-helm-and-for-long-hours-silently/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [“the only real owner of anything is its commander;”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/the-only-real-owner-of-anything-is-its-commander/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/consider-the-subtleness-of-the-sea-how-its-most-dreaded-creatures/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/is-it-that-by-its-indefiniteness-it-shadows-forth-the-heartless-voids/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/now-as-i-before-hinted-i-have-no-objection-to-any-person-s-religion/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/let-america-first-praise-mediocrity-even-in-her-children-before-she/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [Only the man who says no is free](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/only-the-man-who-says-no-is-free/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/beneath-those-stars-is-a-universe-of-gliding-monsters/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/yet-this-is-life-for-hardly-have-we-mortals-by-long-toilings/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/i-never-fancied-broiling-fowls-though-once-broiled-judiciously/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/war-should-be-carried-on-like-a-monsoon-one-changeless-determination/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) > [Genius is full of trash.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/genius-is-full-of-trash/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/herman-melville/#itemlist", "name": "29 May Quotes By Herman Melville", "numberOfItems": 29, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; 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