Herman Melville Quotes
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.
Melville, Herman. "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 10, no. 59, Apr. 1855, p. 671.
Hitler neither smoked tobacco or drank alcohol. They appear to have been his only virtues.
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the centennial of his birth in 1919 was the starting point of a Melville revival and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels.
