Quotes about Herman Melville

But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God? - to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me - that is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.

For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who believe and tremble has one.

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

Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any.

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

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

Because a laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer; and come what will, one comfort's always left--that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

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