Herman Melville

"We are all inhabitants of the same planetary sorrows."

"Ambition is a shadow chased by the ambitious."

"All philosophy is but a remembering of things we somehow knew."

"The ultimate virtue is to allow others their own truth."

"Every man casts a shadow."

"To resist is often to persist."

"Beauty contains a terrible knowledge of its own mortality."

"Courage is often more than the absence of fear."

"Money is the root, but ambition is the branch that poisons the air."

"In all of us there is something deeply moving about human loneliness."

"The best education is perhaps that which teaches you to doubt your teachers."

"Immortality is only the denial of death."

"There is strength in the breaking down of walls between hearts."

"All that we are is determined by what we think."

"True friendship is a kind of soulcraft."

"Imagination is the very engine of human progress."

"Time is the great teacher, though few live long enough to master the lesson."

"What is sport to the great is death to the small."

"The seeds of war are planted in the gardens of peace."

"To fail is sometimes to understand oneself."

"A question unanswered is sometimes wiser than a question answered."

"The greatest mystery is not the universe, but human intention."

"Gratitude is the least offered gift, and therefore the most precious."

"There is a madness to all striving that wisdom must recognize."

"The heart knows before the mind understands."

"In the wilderness, man finds either himself or loses himself completely."

"Despair is often the first step toward awakening."

"The written word is the voice that survives us."

"We are all sentenced to death from birth, but we live as if we are immortal."

"Leadership is the art of making others willing to follow you into uncertainty."