More Quotes by Herman Melville
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.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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.
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
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.
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.
