I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. - Herman Melville

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

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.