"In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride."

"The fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"Leap! Leap up, and lick the sky! I leap with thee; I burn with thee; would fain be welded with thee; defyingly I worship thee."

"The sea will have its way."

"Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal couches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure."

"Of all this fiery life of thine, what will at length remain but one little heap of ashes."

"For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying - the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring."

"Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we...

"Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?"