Herman Melville Quotes About Goodness

Quotes about: Goodness

• Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.

  Herman Melville

  Names, Oil, Water

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.53, Velvet Element Books

• There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

  Herman Melville

  Sorrow, Literature, World

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2852, Delphi Classics

• Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Gratitude, Men

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.

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