Quotes from Herman Melville

Failure is the true test of greatness

Failure is the test of greatness.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.