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• Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength.
  Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?...
• Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
  -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) "Moby Dick" (1851)...
• Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosse
  speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee....
• Past are three summers since she first beheld The ocea
  all around the child await Some exclamation of amazement here....
• There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
  -- Herman Melville (1819-1891), "Moby Dick...
• When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath i
  and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang....
• Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosse
  peak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee....
• Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world.
  All things in heaven and earth do her homage,--the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power....
• Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
  -- John Kea...