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
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. — 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
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by… — 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
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
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
“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
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of… — 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
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We… — 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
Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence. — 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
Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of… — 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
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
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of… — 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
