Herman Melville

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice."

"Nature cares nothing for human morality or civilization."

"The greatest art speaks to the soul without words."

"Science advances by daring to ask forbidden questions."

"Music soothes the savage beast that dwells in every human heart."

"Faith is the antidote to the poison of despair."

"A true leader serves those he commands."

"Work ennobles the human spirit and gives it purpose."

"To dream is to be truly human."

"Humor is the salt that makes life palatable."

"Beauty fades, but a kind word lasts forever."

"To understand death is to understand life."

"Only through perseverance do we discover our true strength."

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

"Change is growth; stagnation is death."

"It is not down on any map; true places never are."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"There is a wisdom in the dark as well as in the light."

"We are not purely ourselves. Our thoughts belong partly to humanity at large."

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

"The great Commodore Nelson was as good and wise a fellow as ever lived."

"Better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep."

"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, I account it high time to get to sea."

"All things that are not to be doubted are doubtful."

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke."

"The secret of happiness is always avoiding what you cannot bear."

"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things."

"The spring comes: green again, and flowers again, and in man's heart desire of wandering winds."

"Better is it to live one day peaceably than a thousand years in tumult."

"Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence."