Herman Melville Collection Quotes

“That serene ocean rolled eastwards from me a thousand leagues of blue.”
― Herman Melville, Herman Melville Collection: Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener and Sailor Billy Budd

“Wide rolling watery paires and potters’ Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still;tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness”
― Herman Melville, Herman Melville Collection: Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener and Sailor Billy Budd