It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing… — 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
Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning. — 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
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Indolence is heaven's ally here, And energy the child of hell: The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the… — 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
Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to the root… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“...there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or… — 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
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone;… — 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
