More Quotes by Herman Melville
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
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.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
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.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
