Quotes

Quotes - Melville

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

Herman Melville

They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.

Herman Melville

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Herman Melville

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

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. -Herman Melville.

Herman Melville

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.

Herman Melville