Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian."

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

"So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right."

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."