“the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living… — 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
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies.… — 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
Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Look not too long in the face of the fire O man!...believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Oh, trebly hooped and welded hip of power! Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!—that one strives, this one jettest all in vain! In… — 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
Twelve o'clock! It is the natural centre, key-stone, and very heart of the day. At that hour, the sun has arrived at… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The sky slides into blue, the bluffs into bloom; the rapid Mississippi expands; runs sparkling and gurgling, all over in eddies; one… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. — 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
