More Quotes by Herman Melville
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
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.
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.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
