More Quotes by Herman Melville
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
