Showing posts with label Herman Melville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herman Melville. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Moby Dick, pg 151

"Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Caesar. It is a witchery of social czarship which there is no withstanding."

--Herman Melville, Moby Dick, pg 151

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Moby Dick, pg 56

"It is not down in any map; true places never are."

Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 12, pg 56

Moby Dick, p44

"But perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving. So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have 'broken his digester.'"

Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 10, pg 44.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Moby Dick, pg 30

"And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for."

Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 5, pg 30.