Way Quotes by Herman Melville

The easiest way of life is the best.

— Herman Melville

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led,…

— Herman Melville

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life…

— Herman Melville

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

— Herman Melville

As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board…

— Herman Melville

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an…

— Herman Melville

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded…

— Herman Melville

Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most…

— Herman Melville

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped…

— Herman Melville

But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives…

— Herman Melville

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak,…

— Herman Melville

I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much…

— Herman Melville

Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the…

— Herman Melville

So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist…

— Herman Melville

“However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if…

— Herman Melville

It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is…

— Herman Melville

If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half…

— Herman Melville

Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever…

— Herman Melville