Herman Melville Quotes

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean`s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Life`s a voyage that`s homeward bound.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.