▶ Ahab's Oath, Ahab's Oath, The Sermon, The Sermon, The Pacific, …The Pacific, Below the Sun, Below the Sun
▶ "melville herman"; "melvilles"; "herman melvilles"; "melville, herman"; "melville's"; …"melville"; "herman melville's"
▶ "Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"; "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."; "Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."; "Truth is in things, and not in words."; "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it."; …"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."; "To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment."; "To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another."; "They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."; "There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is."; "There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man."; "There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."; "There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay."; "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself."; "There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals."; "There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid."; "There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities."; "There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future."; "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 some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."; "There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep."; "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."; "The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love."; "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."; "Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."; "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."; "Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land."; "Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow."; "It is not down in any map; true places never are."; "It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open."; "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."; "Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"; "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."; "I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge."; "Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."; "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 who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."; "Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."; "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."; "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."; "At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect."; "Art is the objectification of feeling."; "A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."; "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."; "A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things."
