hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling...
Herman MelvilleGenius is full of trash.
Herman MelvilleMots clés genius
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?
Herman MelvilleMots clés inspirational nature
and tell him to paint me a sign, with-"no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;" might as well kill both birds at once.
Herman MelvilleMots clés humor
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman MelvilleMots clés inspirational truth
when I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear, and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity. That was my first kick.
Herman MelvilleMots clés humor
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman MelvilleMots clés adventure travel just-do-it sailing travels adventuresome adventurous
I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books.
Herman MelvilleWhat could be more full of meaning?—for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world.
Herman MelvilleCan it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties and connections?
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