Quotes from Herman Melville
I 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
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
- Herman Melville
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
- Herman Melville
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
- Herman Melville
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
- Herman Melville
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
- Herman Melville
Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.
- Herman Melville
As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.
- Herman Melville
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
- Herman Melville
Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.
- Herman Melville
Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.
- Herman Melville
God is liberal of color; so should man be.
- Herman Melville