More Quotes by Herman Melville
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
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.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
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.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
