3 December 2020 Herman Melville Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville 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.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
