Sam Eure

“Europe, thou great theater of arts, sciences, commerce, war, am I at last permitted to visit thy territories?”
― John Adams

“In a world, it was Queequeg's conceit, that if a man made up his mind to live, mere sickness could not kill him: nothing but a whale, or a gale, or some violent, ungovernable, unintelligent destroyer of that sort.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Who would think that fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale!
Yet so it is.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Soon ranging up by his flask, Stubb, firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately sterning out of the way of the whale's horrible wallow, and then ranging up from another fling.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale