We cannot live only for ourselves. A tho... by Herman Melville

Author Literature American novel Moby Dick

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.

- Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

Age Man Life

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

- Herman Melville

A gentle sister is the second best gift to a man.

- Herman Melville

Men Nothing Will

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

- Herman Melville

Goodness World

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

- Herman Melville

Divinity

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

- Herman Melville

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

- Herman Melville

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