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.
Herman Melville
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More quotes by 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.