4 Herman Melville Quotes on Perception

Herman Melville quotes on perception

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

36. Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.

39. Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.

50. Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. In pronounced cases there is no question about them. But in some supposed cases, in various degrees supposedly less pronounced, to draw the exact line of demarcation few will undertake tho' for a fee some professional experts will. There is nothing nameable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay.