American - Novelist | August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
Herman Melville
ManDeepHelpWrongWantNeed
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
LifeAgeDeathOld AgeManLooks
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
StrengthSpeakKnowWayWeakOut
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
WiseWorldThinkBetterStrange
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
NatureQualityKnowPrincipalNever
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
HeartHateWhiteDownRaceHot
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
GreatManNeverSomewhereWhoHe
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
LoveMindMarchWildThroughMay
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HopeStruggleSoulEternityHer
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
TravelWorldSinWayVirtueWithout
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
LifeManUniverseStrangeJokeCall
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
FutureOrderWinkLawsMustPotent
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