Herman Melville quotes and words of wisdom

"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."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it."
Found in the topic Effect.

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
Found in the topic Alcohol.

"If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid."
Found in the topic Book.

"He who has never failed somewhere ... that man can not be great."
Found in the topic Factory.

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."
Found in the topic Cause.

"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity"
Found in the topic Hope.

"The eyes are the gateway to the soul."
Found in the topic Eyes.

"They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure."
Found in the topic Leisure.

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Found in the topic Imitation.

Interesting Quotes

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not madSalvador Dali - Spanish Catalan Surrealist painter (1904 - 1989)

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.W. Somerset Maugham - English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)