Quotes from Herman Melville
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
- Herman Melville
Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.
- Herman Melville
The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!
- Herman Melville
Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
- Herman Melville
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.
- Herman Melville
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
- Herman Melville
Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
- Herman Melville
Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
- Herman Melville
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.
- Herman Melville
For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.
- Herman Melville
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.
- Herman Melville
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
- Herman Melville