David Huskey

“Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

“For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters. They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick