Herman Melville Profound Quotations

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion.

All truth is profound.

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.