Famous quotes containing the word melville:
“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carried off a million years ago.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)