"And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think."

"A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So if any one man, in his own proper...

"But Queequeg, do you not see, was a creature in the transition state - neither caterpillar nor butterfly. He was just enough civilized...

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

"Two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and midmost of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like...

"By reason of these things, then, the great whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open."

"Yes, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is the house. What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and crannies though, and...

"But it is too late to make any improvements now. The universe is finished; the cope-stone is on, and the chips were carted off a million...

"Chief among my motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself."

"And yet, it's a noble and heroic thing, the wind! Who ever conquered it? In every fight it has the last and bitterest blow. Run tilting...