"That old Greek, Prometheus, who made men, they say, should have been a blacksmith, and animated them with fire; for what’s made in fire...

"No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man." Musing: This chapter of the book reads...

"How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open...

"Was it that this old carpenter had been a life-long wanderer, whose much rolling, to and fro, not only had gathered no moss; but what is...

"Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe....

"The most poisonous reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every...

"Nor, at the time, had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, that all the anguish of that present suffering was but the direct issue of...

"We account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality."

"Thus we see how the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child’s play."

"Who can show a pedigree like Leviathan? Ahab’s harpoon had shed older blood than the Pharaoh’s."