Only the man who says no is free
HERMAN MELVILLEOnly the man who says no is free
HERMAN MELVILLEfor there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
HERMAN MELVILLEThinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
HERMAN MELVILLEMeditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLEMan is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLEThey talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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 MELVILLEYet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLETo know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is not down in any map; true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLEIn a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLEI love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEGenius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
HERMAN MELVILLEI 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