Quotes by Herman Melville
| We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. |
| There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke. |
| 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 causes, and they come back to us as effects. |
| It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. |
| Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. |
| A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. |
| Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. |
