More Quotes by Herman Melville
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
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.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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.
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.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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.
