Herman Melville Quotes

Herman Melville Quotes

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

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

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.

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 who have tried it.

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

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.