More Quotes by Herman Melville
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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.
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.
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.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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.
