Herman Melville Quotes

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. ...more

Birth: August 01, 1819 - Death: September 28, 1891

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

Topic(s): Men , Inspirational , Life

I try all things, I achieve what I can.

Topic(s): Trying , Inspirational , I Can

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

Topic(s): Wells , Poor , Criticize

Failure is the test of greatness.

Topic(s): Motivational , Greatness , Tests

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Topic(s): Grows , Prejudice

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

Topic(s): Relation , True Friend , International Relations

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Topic(s): Literature , Democracy , Hell

There’s something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

Topic(s): Mountain , All Things , Climbing

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Dream , Motivational

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world’s hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Topic(s): World , Heart , Whole

Failure is the true test of greatness

Topic(s): Greatness , Tests

Traveling takes the ink out of one’s pen as well as the cash out of one’s purse.

Topic(s): Wells , Money , Travel

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Herman Melville Quotes