More Quotes by Herman Melville
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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.
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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.
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.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
