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All Quotes by author - Herman Melville

" A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. "

" Art is the objectification of feeling. "

Objectification

" A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. "

" At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. "

" A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. "

" Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. "

" Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. "

" Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. "

" Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. "

" He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. "

" He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. "

" Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. "

" I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. "

" In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. "

" Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? "

" It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. "

" It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. "

" It is not down in any map; true places never are. "

" Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. "

" Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. "

" Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. "

" Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. "

" Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. "

" The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. "

" There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. "

" There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. "

" There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. "

" There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. "

" There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. "

" There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid. "

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