Quotes by : Herman Melville

It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare....

Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but....

Thy silence, then that voices thee.

All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of....

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not....

So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite....

War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.

So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists....

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue,....

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth.....