Quotations From HERMAN MELVILLE

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• 91.

  The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

  Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. IV, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971).
  
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• 92.

  Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

  Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 41, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988).
• 93.

  There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear—the city of London and the South Seas.

  Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. "The South Seas" (1858-59), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). A lecture.
  
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• 94.

  A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

  Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. II, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971).
  
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• 95.

  Death my lord!—it is the deadest of all things.

  Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 163, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Spoken by Babbalanja, the philosopher.
  
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• 96.

  Oh Conventionalism, what a ninny, thou art, to be sure.

  Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. journal, Nov. 23, 1849. Journals, vol. 15, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Howard C. Horsford and Lynn Horth (1989).
• 97.

  That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

  Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 24, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988).
  
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• 98.

  Eternity is not ours by right; and, alone, unrequited sufferings here, form no title thereto.

  Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 175, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Spoken by Babbalanja, the philosopher.
  
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• 99.

  Come a stove boat and a stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.

  Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 7, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988).
• 100.

  St Louis, that city of outward-bound caravans for the West, and which is to the prairies, what Cairo is to the Desert.

  Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. "Mr Parkman's Tour" (1849), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987).
  
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