Should Quotes by Herman Melville

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

— Herman Melville

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

— Herman Melville

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

— Herman Melville

It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through…

— Herman Melville

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

— Herman Melville

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

— Herman Melville

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from…

— Herman Melville

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no…

— Herman Melville

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

— Herman Melville

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

— Herman Melville

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of…

— Herman Melville

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those…

— Herman Melville

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let…

— Herman Melville

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us…

— Herman Melville

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in…

— Herman Melville

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or…

— Herman Melville

Did all the lets and bars appear To every just or larger end, Whence should come the trust and cheer? Youth must…

— Herman Melville

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are…

— Herman Melville

When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages…

— Herman Melville

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by…

— Herman Melville

Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed…

— Herman Melville

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have…

— Herman Melville

Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which ourfurther…

— Herman Melville

I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much…

— Herman Melville