Herman Melville Quotes about Age

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Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

Herman Melville

Thinking, Age, Generations

Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.235

Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and courts of old; but how few of those former places can their posterity trace, amid avenues of modern erections; to how few is the old guide-book now a clew! Every age makes its own guide-books, and the old ones are used for waste paper.

Herman Melville

Father, Book, Age

Herman Melville (1963). “Works: Redburn, his first voyage”

Herman Melville Quotes about Age

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