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Herman Melville Quotes


To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

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.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

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.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?