Herman Melville arrived in the port of Lahaina on a whaling ship in April 1843 and spent three months on the island of Maui.
“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
