More Quotes by Herman Melville
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
