Famous quotes containing the word melville:
“He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The retaliation is apt to be in monstrous disproportion to the supposed offense; for when in anybody was revenge in its exactions aught else but an inordinate usurer?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“To you, ye stars, man owes his subtlest raptures, thoughts unspeakable, yet full of faith.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)