Robert Louis Stevenson . . . Prayers Written at Vailima

Ahab
Farewell, happy fields, Where joy forever dwells! Hail horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor! One who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven
Milton, Paradise Lost - Book I

Elijah
With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the begger-like stranger stood a moment, as if in troubled reverie; then starting a little, turned and said: --"Ye've shipped, have ye? Names down on the papers? Well, well, what;s signed is signed;...and some sailors or other must go with him, I suppose; as well these as any other men, God pity 'em!"
Chapter 19 - The Prophet

Daggoo
Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues, and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all the pomp of six feet five in his socks.
Chapter 27 - Knights and Squires

Fedallah
Wandering o're the earth, Through God's high sufferance, for the trial of man, By falsities and lies the greatest part Of mankind they corrupted to forsake God their Creator,and the invisible Glory of Him that made them to transform Oft to the image of a brute, adorned With gay religions full of pomp and gold, And devils to adore for deities.
Milton, Paradise Lost - Book I

Flask
So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time in order to kill and boil.
Chapter 27 - Knights and Squires

Pip
"Weep so, and I will murder thee! have a care, for Ahab too is mad."
Chapter 129 - The Cabin

Queequeg
"It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians."
Chapter 13 - Wheelbarrow

Stubb
A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.
Chapter 27 - Knights and Squires

Tashtego
To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and half believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of Powers of the Air.
Chapter 27 - Knights and Squires

Starbuck
And as brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery, chiefly visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors, which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man.
Chapter 26 - Knights and Squires

Postscript
Know ye, now Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish 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! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing -- straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
Chapter 23 - The Lee Shore

Ahab Farewell, happy fields, Where joy forever dwells! Hail horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor! One who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven `Milton, Paradise Lost - Book I`
Elijah With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the begger-like stranger stood a moment, as if in troubled reverie; then starting a little, turned and said: --"Ye've shipped, have ye? Names down on the papers? Well, well, what;s signed is signed;...and some sailors or other must go with him, I suppose; as well these as any other men, God pity 'em!" `Chapter 19 - The Prophet`
Daggoo Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues, and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all the pomp of six feet five in his socks. `Chapter 27 - Knights and Squires`
Fedallah Wandering o're the earth, Through God's high sufferance, for the trial of man, By falsities and lies the greatest part Of mankind they corrupted to forsake God their Creator,and the invisible Glory of Him that made them to transform Oft to the image of a brute, adorned With gay religions full of pomp and gold, And devils to adore for deities. `Milton, Paradise Lost - Book I`
Flask So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time in order to kill and boil. `Chapter 27 - Knights and Squires`
Pip "Weep so, and I will murder thee! have a care, for Ahab too is mad." `Chapter 129 - The Cabin`
Queequeg "It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians." `Chapter 13 - Wheelbarrow`
Stubb A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year. `Chapter 27 - Knights and Squires`
Tashtego To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and half believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of Powers of the Air. `Chapter 27 - Knights and Squires`
Starbuck And as brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery, chiefly visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors, which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man. `Chapter 26 - Knights and Squires`