Herman Melville

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment."

"The deepest truths are hidden in the darkest places."

"A man's sanity is his ability to recognize horrors."

"Few things are universally true or universally false."

"The greatest of all human problems is the problem of living."

"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."

"We cannot live only for ourselves."

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

"Work is the man."

"Every diminution of prejudice is a victory."

"What is poetry but the most creative of all acts."

"The truth may be stretched thin but it never breaks."

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."

"There is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed."

"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves."

"The universal causes is not aided by making concessions to it."

"He who cannot understand how to put his thoughts on ice skates should not try the frozen pond of prose."

"Any object, intently regarded, may be a gate of access to the divine."

"Peace is its own reward."

"What lies beneath the surface determines the reality above it."

"A man thinks he amounts to a good deal till he is crossed."

"Some men are satisfied to go home at night."

"The world's a ship on its passage out."

"None are so fallible as those who are sure they are right."

"There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked that you had better be careful about it."

"Grief is a strange ocean with no shores."

"The most intimate of things remain secret."

"We are all bound in one sheaf and are to be cast into one fire by and by."

"Beauty is often dangerous."

"What is the very essence of a democratic spirit?"