In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
Herman MelvilleFor whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Herman MelvilleThe grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.
Herman Melville