War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale.—It's the unnatural combat of the four primal elements.—It's a blasted heath.— It's a Hyperborean… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Did all the lets and bars appear To every just or larger end, Whence should come the trust and cheer? Youth must… — 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
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
“The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton. — 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
I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace.… — 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
