Herman Melville Quotes

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
~ Herman Melville

Action;

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
~ Herman Melville
- Moby Dick, 1851

Alcohol and Drinking;

I would prefer not to.
~ Herman Melville
- Bartleby the Scrivener, 1856

Alienation;

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
~ Herman Melville

Hope;