Herman Melvillefor there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men ✨ Herman Melville (2016). Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale, p.315, Cosimo, Inc.… ▶371Time
Herman MelvilleThe sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. ✨ Herman Melville (1892). Moby Dick, p.391372Thought
Herman Melvilletruly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If yo… ▶363ReadingTime
Herman MelvilleReal strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic. ✨ Herman Melville (18… ▶353Humanity
Herman MelvilleMethinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiri… ▶331DeathLifeThought
Herman MelvilleWoe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather th… ▶364ReadingTruth
Herman MelvilleAll men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent,… ▶353DeathLifeLove
Herman MelvilleFor whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. ✨ Herman Melville (2016). Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged), p.328, Vij Books … ▶365Reading
Herman MelvilleThe Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. ✨ Herman Melville (2016). White Jacket, p.161, Herman Melville332HopeReadingTime
Herman MelvilleSo, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some mind… ▶321Thought
Herman MelvilleThere is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.354Sadness
Herman MelvilleA man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things. ✨ White-Jacket by Herman Melville, (Ch. 64), 1850.354ThoughtTruth
Herman MelvilleMan and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember. ✨ The Complete Novels of Herman Melville.344Reading
Herman MelvilleLet faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe. ✨ Herman Melville (1892). Moby Dick, p.460333HopeTruth
Herman MelvilleBut Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang! ✨… ▶333DeathThought
Herman MelvilleThere are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. ✨ Herman Melville (2013). Delphi Compl… ▶366HopePoliticsTime
Herman MelvilleThere are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. ✨ Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces… ▶322Reading
Herman MelvilleFather Mapple paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout t… ▶355Hope
Herman MelvilleIf not against us, nature is not for us. ✨ Herman Melville (1849). Mardi: And a Voyage Thither, p.246322Reading
Herman MelvilleThere's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things. ✨ Moby Dick.378Humanity
Herman MelvilleWhatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.323Humor
Herman MelvilleThere are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas. ✨ Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (… ▶301Politics
Herman MelvilleGive not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. ✨ Herman … ▶378DeathPhilosophyTime
Herman MelvilleFor all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal. ✨ Herman Melville (2016). Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged), p.19, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd<… ▶312Reading
Herman MelvilleAt sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. ✨ Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). Correspondence, p.346, Northwestern University Press301Politics
Herman MelvilleHeaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. ✨ Herman Melville (1892). Mo… ▶323ReadingSadness
Herman MelvilleWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.334Life
Herman MelvilleQueequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. ✨ Herman Melville (1892). Moby Dick, p.57291Truth
Herman MelvilleAh, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. ✨ Herman Melville (2016). Bartleby, The Scrivener, p… ▶357Death
Herman MelvilleWoe to him who seeks to please rather than appall. ✨ Herman Melville (2012). Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition), p.60, Jazzybee Verlag346Sadness
