Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman Melville

It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville

Truth is in things, and not in words.
Herman Melville

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Herman Melville

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

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
Herman Melville

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
Herman Melville

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Herman Melville