More Quotes by Herman Melville
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
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.
