Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams… — 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
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea. — 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… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly… — 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
There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the… — 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
“Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the… — 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
“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
