Quotes by : Herman Melville

So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist....

Ignorance is the parent of fear ...

how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before....

You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic....

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but....

Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or otherwise;....

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason....

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the....

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby....