Quotes by Herman Melville

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For...

#Herman Melville

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring...

#Books, #Writing

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

#Drinking

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's...

#Grief

So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses.

#Horses

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

#Originality

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

#Adventure, #Laughter