More Quotes by Herman Melville
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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.
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.
