Herman Melville

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

— Herman Melville

#fail #imitation #originality #succeed #than

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

#men

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. ↗

— Herman Melville

#laughter #laughter

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian. ↗

— Herman Melville

#sobriety #religion

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. ↗

— Herman Melville

#poverty #poor

I would prefer not to. ↗

— Herman Melville

#melville #mystery #nobody #puzzle #secret

I try all things, I achieve what I can. ↗

— Herman Melville

#achievement

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. ↗

— Herman Melville

#hard things #hard words #man #things #thinks

Call me Ishmael. ↗

— Herman Melville

#introduction #opening-lines #sobriquet #first-sentence

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. ↗

— Herman Melville

#adventuresome #just-do-it #travels #love