3 Herman Melville Quotes on Behavior

Herman Melville quotes on behavior

35. His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it.

37. 'At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.

48. But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.