Herman Melville

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

"Art is the objectification of feeling."

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

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

"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."