"One of the prime redeeming qualities of your man of violence is that at times he has as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger in a...

"Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through...

"But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or another swims before...

"All the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a...

"Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane."

"It may seem strange that of all men, sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the...

"As for small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to man...

"No one can feel stranger and stronger emotions than that man does, who for the first time finds himself pulling into the charmed,...

"The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness."

"Few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action."