Time Quotes by Herman Melville

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

— Herman Melville

“Time, time; if I but only had the time,”

— Herman Melville

“I've part changed my flesh since that time, why not my mind?”

— Herman Melville

Youth is the time when hearts are large.

— Herman Melville

Great towers take time to construct.

— Herman Melville

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the…

— Herman Melville

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

— Herman Melville

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

— Herman Melville

“What a delightful, lazy, languid time we had whilst we were thus gliding along!”

— Herman Melville

“I myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel…

— Herman Melville

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted…

— Herman Melville

Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade…

— Herman Melville

“I am one of those unfortunate persons to whom the sight of these animals are, at any time an insufferable annoyance.”

— Herman Melville

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is…

— Herman Melville

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep…

— Herman Melville

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have…

— Herman Melville

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of…

— Herman Melville

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe…

— Herman Melville

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe…

— Herman Melville

“Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward…

— Herman Melville

Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country…

— Herman Melville

“The maintenance of secrecy in the matter, the confining all knowledge of it for a time to the place where the homicide…

— Herman Melville

Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever…

— Herman Melville

“At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of…

— Herman Melville

To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to…

— Herman Melville

“But I must be content with only one more and a concluding illustration; a remarkable and most significant one, by which you…

— Herman Melville

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers…

— Herman Melville

“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is…

— Herman Melville

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may…

— Herman Melville

“I pondered some time without fully comprehending the reason for this. Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and sanctity,…

— Herman Melville

“many is the time the poor fellows, just buttoning the necks of their clean frocks, are startled by the cry of "There…

— Herman Melville

“The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my inability to express it. At times there are gestures…

— Herman Melville

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe…

— Herman Melville

“But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though…

— Herman Melville

“Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through…

— Herman Melville

“[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”

— Herman Melville

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers…

— Herman Melville

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the…

— Herman Melville

But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue…

— Herman Melville

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past…

— Herman Melville