Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
HERMAN MELVILLEMan is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
HERMAN MELVILLEFor as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
HERMAN MELVILLEOnly the man who says no is free
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
HERMAN MELVILLEHope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhen 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 MELVILLEThe eyes are the gateway to the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLELife’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
HERMAN MELVILLEDo not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
HERMAN MELVILLEThink not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
HERMAN MELVILLEOne of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
HERMAN MELVILLEI know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEHe who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
HERMAN MELVILLE