Born this date in 1819: Herman Melville, US writer, author of Moby Dick. 10 quotes from him:
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow men.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.
Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.
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