"Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling."

"Go to Snarles the painter and tell him to paint me a sign with - 'no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;' might as...

"For I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart...

"Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab's above the common; Ahab's been in colleges, as well as among the cannibals."

"He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab."

"Captain Ahab did not name himself."

"But I am one of those who never take on about princely fortunes, and am quite content if the world is ready to board and lodge me."

"A noble craft, but somehow most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that."

"It's a mutual joint-stock world in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians.

"Thought Queequeq, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."