More Quotes by Herman Melville
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.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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.