Quotes by Melville, Herman

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and >>

Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round c >>

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. >>

Quotations about Insensitivity

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless ther >>

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to >>

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tea >>

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

Melville, Herman