More Quotes by Herman Melville
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
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.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
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.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
