More Quotes by Herman Melville
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
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.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
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.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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.
