Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. Herman Melville Read Quote
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises… the best excellence in the children of any other land. Herman Melville Read Quote
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid. Herman Melville Read Quote
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. Herman Melville Read Quote
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? Herman Melville Read Quote
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. Herman Melville Read Quote
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. Herman Melville Read Quote
