The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run — 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
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
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
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
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
As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so,… — 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
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find… — 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
