But what is worship? To do the will of God. That is worship. And what is the will of God? To do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man do to me. That is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. And what do I wish that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him in his. Ergo, I must turn idolator.

- Melville, Moby Dick

Supplication, 2005, by J Swofford

"I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy." 

~ Ishmael, Moby Dick, Herman Melville, 1851

A good man can be honest in any type of skin. - Melville, Moby Dick

"The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable affliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us." ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
Masaccio, 1425

"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."

~  Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Great Whale

Hugest of living creatures, in the deep

Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims

And seems a moving land; and at his gills

Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea.

Milton's Paradise Lost as cited in Melville's Moby Dick