Best Herman Melville Thoughts
- There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. Brutes
- Truth is in things, and not in words. Funny
- Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. Edges
- Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. Attesting
- In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. All
- There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think… Better
- He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Adversity
- To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment. Compliment
- Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any… Any
- At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. Fellow
- There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. Contrast
- Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. Among
- It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. Apparently
- There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. America
- There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. Careful
- There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid. All
- There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay. Inspirational
- To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many… Book
- Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? Gone
- It is not down in any map; true places never are. Any
- Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. Brow
- Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. Age
- The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. Conquest
- There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. Future
- To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another. Called
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