More Quotes by Herman Melville
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.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
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 path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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.
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.
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.
