Colton

“What business have I with this pipe? This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapors among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine. I'll smoke no more.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing--mores the pity.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale