Quotes about Melville

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.

What are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!

Wild rumours abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.

and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.

I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.

It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.