Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the word-easy, easy-only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys-that's all. Start her!
Herman MelvilleWe talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?
Herman MelvilleThe western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.
Herman MelvilleAre not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
Herman Melville