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.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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.
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.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
