Quotes by : Herman Melville

The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some....

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness

... the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered....

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for....

At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. I am content. Others....

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely,....

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

Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face-at least to my taste-his countenance yet had....

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak....