Quotes by Melville, Herman

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidentia >>

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegor >>

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. >>

Quotations about Age and Aging

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesi >>

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the rev >>

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of d >>

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Melville, Herman