Favorite quotes said by Melville himself:

Quotes that inspire myself and I hope will inspire you also.

1. "Life's a voyage that's homeward bound."
2. "I know not all that may be coming but be it what it will, I will go to it laughing."
3. "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."
4. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it."
5. "In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our won hearts we fashion our own gods."