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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.
HERMAN MELVILLE, The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.
HERMAN MELVILLE, Israel Potter
War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.
War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.
HERMAN MELVILLE, Israel Potter
All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.
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