black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

Herman Melville

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Animal Dog Help Ourselves Philosophy
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Animal Interfere Man Money
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Command Convince God Hard Persuade Remember
You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Hide One Liner Soul
When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
HERMAN MELVILLE

Born Equality Freedom Legal Men Slave Writing
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Better Failure Limitation Original Success
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Book Brain Criticism Man Rate Safety
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLE

Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
HERMAN MELVILLE

Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking
Silence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLE

God One Liner Silence Voice
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Below Further Future Hope Past Present Reach Scale

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Herman Melville Quotes