Herman Melville Quotes

An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'