"From that hour I clove to him for a friend, and a friend we were, and are forever." - Herman Melville

😊 Happiness

“From that hour I clove to him for a friend, and a friend we were, and are forever.”

Melville celebrates the happiness found in deep, lasting friendship.

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

— Herman Melville

“He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.”

— Herman Melville

“In the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti full of peace and joy but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-lived life.”

— Herman Melville

“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads through family.”

— Herman Melville

“It is not down in any map true places never are”

— Herman Melville

“It is not down on any map because true places of wonder never are found on ordinary charts”

— Herman Melville