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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Herman Melville
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Herman Melville
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
Herman Melville
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Herman Melville
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville
To 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 Melville
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Herman Melville
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville
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