Famous quotes containing the word melville:
“War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)