When you think what someone thinks & do what they do, you'll find that you'll produce a similar result. - Marshall Sylver
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head. - Herman Melville
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. - Herman Melville
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. - Herman Melville
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. - Herman Melville
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. - Herman Melville
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. - Herman Melville
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. - Herman Melville
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last. - Herman Melville
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. - Herman Melville
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
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. - Herman Melville
They think me mad--Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself! - Herman Melville
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Herman Melville
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. - Herman Melville
To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. - Herman Melville
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. - Herman Melville
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