More Quotes by Herman Melville
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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.
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.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
