Herman Melville

"We may have lost our innocence but not our ideals."

"There is no profit in the life of a man when he abandons his ideals."

"The richest vein in a writer's experience lies in the universal truths."

"Death is but the shadow of life."

"A ship is worse than a prison; it is a tyrant."

"Time is a reef upon which all the vessels of our life must wreck."

"There is much worth in solitude when solitude is the choice of one's nature."

"The monster of convention is always lurking to drag down those who dare."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"It were not right to assume that the whole frame of things may be sustained by a single image."

"Beneath the vaunted glory of civilization lies the savage truth of human nature."

"We are bound by ties of affection to those who have not merited them."

"A man walks forth from his tent, and the world opens before him."

"The sea once it casts its spell holds one in its net of wonder forever."

"Patience is its own reward."

"There is beauty even in the terrible and the strange."

"The depths of the sea are as unknown as the secrets of the human heart."

"A ship is a teacher of temperance and perseverance."

"To be a man is to be a thing sublime."

"The greatest triumphs come through the greatest trials."

"We live in a world where truth wears a thousand different faces."

"The power of example is greater than the power of authority."

"Every man carries within him a world."

"Ideals are not luxuries; they are necessities."

"The beauty of nature lies in its indifference to human desire."

"Kindness is the only currency that never devalues."

"A life without purpose is a ship without a rudder."

"The mind, once enlightened, cannot remain confined."

"There is a kinship between all thinking creatures."

"Fear is the ancestor of cruelty."