"He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad."

"Out from the center of the sea, poor Pip turned his crisp, curling, black head to the sun, another lonely castaway, though the loftiest...

"The sea had jeeringly kept his [Pip's] finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul."

"But we are all in the hands of the Gods."

"Though man loves his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence."

"Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a...

"What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish? And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?"

"What are the Rights of Man and the Liberties of the World but Loose-Fish? What all men's minds and opinions but Loose-Fish? What is the...

"What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish?"

"Is it not a saying in everyone's mouth, possession is one half of the law: that is, regardless of how the thing came into possession?...