Who said "A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."?

This quote is attributed to Herman Melville.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. - Herman Melville

"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."

Herman Melville Education

Novelist American 1819–1891

"It is the privilege of the reader to slow down the author who goes too fast."

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

"To know how to say what others only think is to be a poet."

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

"Education opens doors."

"Education opens doors to endless possibilities."

"I ain't got the education you got, bub."

"You can't put a price on history."