"But who can tell, - Ahab muttered - whether these sharks swim to feast on the whale or on Ahab?"

"'Oh! Ahab,' cried Starbuck, 'not too late is it, even now, the third day to desist. See! Moby Dick seeks you not. It is you, you, that...

"It is a thing not uncommonly happening to the whale-boats in those swarming seas; the sharks at times apparently following them in the...

"Oh, my captain, my captain! - noble heart - go not - go not! - see, it's a brave man that weeps; how great the agony of the persuasion...

"But aye, old mast, we both grow old together; sound in our hulls, though, are we not, my ship?"

"But let me have one more good round look aloft here at the sea; there's time for that. An old, old sight, and yet somehow so young; aye,...

"Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick!"

"I disobey my God in obeying Ahab!"

"Aye, he's chasing me now; not I him - that's bad; I might have known it too."

"Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these things are bodiless, but...