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Quotes by Herman Melville, Moby Dick

"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table."
By Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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"Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but 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."
By Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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"For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness."
By Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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"Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage."
By Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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