Quotes by Melville, Herman

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

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead >>

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewh >>

Quotations about Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the >>

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes a >>

What you are will show in what you do. >>

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman