Quote

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Herman Melville

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
Art Collector
Essayist
Lecturer
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Sailor
Teacher
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Hermann Melville
Herman Melvill
Advocating
Accomplish
Habit
Strange
Cannot
Thing

More quotes by Herman Melville

Image
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
Herman Melville
Image
Let us only hate hatred and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.
Herman Melville
Image
The entire merit of a man can never be made known nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.
Herman Melville
Image
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?
Herman Melville
Image
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
Herman Melville
Image
How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.
Herman Melville
Image
In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
Herman Melville
Image
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
Herman Melville
Image
There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship by her, borrowed from the sea by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.
Herman Melville
Image
Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.
Herman Melville
Image
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
Herman Melville
Image
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
Herman Melville
Image
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
Herman Melville
Image
You cannot hide the soul.
Herman Melville
Image
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
Herman Melville
Image
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.
Herman Melville
Image
I am, as I am whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
Herman Melville
Image
To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
Herman Melville
Image
In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
Herman Melville
Image
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
Herman Melville