"Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, … - Herman Melville

To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.

for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown

"For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one."