Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLEIgnorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLEStay true to the dreams of thy youth.
HERMAN MELVILLEAn utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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 MELVILLEDream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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 MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
HERMAN MELVILLEAs for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLENature is nobody’s ally.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEA thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
HERMAN MELVILLEMy body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
HERMAN MELVILLEI know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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 MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLE