cheery, Author: Herman Melville Copy Quote More from Herman Melville “see how elastic our swift prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.” “What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.” “Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye…” “You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sor…”