Benjamin Franklin's letter to David Hartley (December 4, 1789) as quoted in "The Writings of Benjamin Franklin," Volume 10 (p. 72) edited by Albert H. Smyth, 1907.
Herman Melville (1850). “Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-gentleman, in the Merchant Service”, p.89