Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLEFailure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhen among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
HERMAN MELVILLEA man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLEAll deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
HERMAN MELVILLEStay true to the dreams of thy youth.
HERMAN MELVILLEOnly the man who says no is free
HERMAN MELVILLEOld age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhat is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
HERMAN MELVILLEMeditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLEThey talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
HERMAN MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe 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 MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
HERMAN MELVILLEHe who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
HERMAN MELVILLE