"By the merest chance the ship itself at last rescued him; but from that hour Pip went about the deck an idiot; such, at least, they said...

"Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practiced swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the...

"In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless ocean was between Pip and Stubb."

"Pip was left behind on the sea, like a hurried traveller’s trunk."

"Now, in general, Stick to the boat, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when Leap from the boat, is still...

"And so the whale was lost and Pip was saved."

"But Pip loved life, and all life’s peaceable securities; so that the panic-striking business in which he had somehow unaccountably...

"Poor Pip! ye have heard of him before; ye must remember his tambourine on that dramatic midnight, so gloomy-jolly."

"The truth is, that living or dead, if but decently treated, whales as a species are by no means creatures of ill odor."

"Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a...