Quotes by Herman Melville
Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity.
For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg -- a cozy, loving pair.
However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever...
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
