Herman Melville quotes.
All 6 quotations by Herman Melville in our collection.
“Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.”
“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.”
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
“Truth is in things, and not in words.”
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