Herman Melville Trying Quotations

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

I try all things, I achieve what I can.