Herman Melville

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes to pawing over his old clothes.

And there is a certain valor in not thinking too much about the future.

It is not the eye, but the heart, that sees.

The truest things are the easiest to say.

No man can be a hero to his valet, nor to his wife.

The sea hath no king but God alone.

It is better to be a dog and bay at the moon than to be a man and fear the unknown.

There are some queer times in this world.

All mortal greatness is but disease.

The only way to be happy is to be ignorant.