Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there's a member-roll for you! What club but the whaleman's can head off like that? Herman Melville
But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. Herman Melville
I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment. Herman Melville
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. Herman Melville