"Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless...

"Thus, while in life the great whale's body may have been a real terror to his foes, in his death his ghost becomes a powerless panic to...

"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain, warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being...

"For all angels are nothing more than the shark, well governed."

"Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters."

"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn...

"Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the...

"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under the water, unapparent for the most part, and...

"Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers."

"For it is one of the more curious things about this Leviathan, that his skeleton gives very little idea of his general shape."