More Quotes by Herman Melville
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
