Herman Melville Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891
Birthday: August 1
Death: September 28
The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the home to which, however traveled, the heart still fondly turns, ignoring the burden of its anxieties and cares.
source: Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.422, Northwestern University Press
topic: Travel, Home, Heart, Leaving Home, Pendants
