The Lee Shore: Bulkington

From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
A six-inch chapter eulogizing the sailor Bulkington as the soul that refuses safe harbor for the open sea of thought.
Chapter 23 (The Lee Shore)
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God—so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!
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