Ahab is Ahab Auteur: Herman Melville Copy Quote More from Herman Melville “Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in …” “But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.” “A gentle joyousness-a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the glid…” “A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the mo…”