Quotes Tagged With :melville

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes....

They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the....

It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s....

But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is....

To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din....

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

The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans....

When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft....

You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame....