More Quotes by Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
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.
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.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
