More Quotes by Herman Melville
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
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.
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.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
