Herman Melville Quotes & Quotations

Herman Melville Quotes

» Art is the objectification of feeling.

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

» He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

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

» There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

» Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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

» Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

» Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

» Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

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