Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she …

Herman Melville
214 citations
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. ✨ Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition, p.247, Northwestern University Press
Reading
17

More Author Quotes

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own. ✨ Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle, Hershel Parker (1988). Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition, p.50 … ▶
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. ✨ Herman Melville (2008). Moby-Dick, p.535, Velvet Element Books
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ✨ Herman Melville (2015). Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville, p.254, 谷月社
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing. ✨ The Complete Works of Herman Melville.
Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks. ✨ Herman Melville (2016). Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged), p.87, Vij Books India P … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes