Herman Melville Quotes, Thoughts and Image

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Youth is the time when hearts are large.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

We cannot live for ourselves alone.

We die, because we live.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run