Herman Melville on Happiness

This page displays 2 quotations attributed to Herman Melville and filed under "happiness" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.

Attributed to Herman Melville, entry #199886: "Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none."

Attributed to Herman Melville, entry #147631: "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."