Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
Herman Melville
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Often
Money
Interferes
Men
Propensity
Benevolence
Interfere
Charity
Animal
Making
More quotes by Herman Melville
Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.
Herman Melville
Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.
Herman Melville
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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
What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?
Herman Melville
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Herman Melville
Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.
Herman Melville
Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.
Herman Melville
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Herman Melville
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
Herman Melville
Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.
Herman Melville
Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'
Herman Melville
When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.
Herman Melville
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
Herman Melville
Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
Herman Melville
A man can be honest in any sort of skin.
Herman Melville
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
Herman Melville
At banquets surfeit not, but fill partake, and retire and eat not again till you crave.
Herman Melville
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
Herman Melville
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
Herman Melville
