Famous quotes containing the word melville:
“Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)