Quotes by Herman Melville

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

“I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.”

“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”

“The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run”

“The easiest way of life is the best.”

“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”

“We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.”

“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”