Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

by Herman Melville

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Besides, my boy, he has a wife—not three voyages wedded—a sweet, resigned girl. Think

God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

from hell's heart I stab at thee;