Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as read more

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.

They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.

They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.