When you think what someone thinks & do what they do, you'll find that you'll produce a similar result. - Marshall Sylver
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. - Herman Melville
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? - Herman Melville
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. - Herman Melville
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. - Herman Melville
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. - Herman Melville
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. - Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. - Herman Melville
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning. - Herman Melville
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. - Herman Melville
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. - Naomi Wolf
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. - Herman Melville
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. - Herman Melville
The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. - Herman Melville
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run. - Herman Melville
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