“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“What could be more full of meaning?—for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.” — 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
“oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is… — 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
“in this matter. Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Glimpses do you seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of… — 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
The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things...” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I somehow cling to the strange fancy, that, in all men hiddenly reside certain wondrous, occult properties - as in some plants… — 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
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
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the… — 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
