The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.

—Herman Melville

About Herman Melville

Portrait of Herman Melville

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his...

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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

—Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

—Herman Melville

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

—Herman Melville

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

—Herman Melville

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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

—Herman Melville

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

—Harold B. Lee

Luxuries are never so comfortable as are the familiar, ordinary things of home.

—George Moore

Not going home is already like death.

—E. Catherine Tobler

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

—Aristophanes

If love be not in the house, there is nothing.

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