In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. - Herman Melville

An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.

"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all. — Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it"

The Killer is never hunted. I never heard what sort of oil he has. Exception might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the ground of its indistinctness. For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.