"When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliance of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it."

"For what's made in fire must properly belong to fire."

"Not easily can thou scorch a scar."

"For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books."

"But let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man."

"Take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates."

"Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy."

"No great and enduring volume can ever be written about the flea, though many there be who have tried it."

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."

"So magnifying is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk."