More Quotes by Herman Melville
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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.
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.
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.
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.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
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.
