More Quotes by Herman Melville
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
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.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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.
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.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
