“Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“worship. And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom… — 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
“But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God?… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Father Mapple paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can… — 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
