"Time was, when as the sunrise nobly spurred me, so the sunset soothed. No more. This lovely light, it lights not me; all loveliness is...

"Oh! I plainly see my miserable office,- to obey, rebelling; and worse yet, to hate with a touch of pity! For in his eyes I read some...

"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since...

"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. [ . . . ] If man will strike, strike though the mask! How can the prisoner reach...

"Though nominally included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it. He lived in the world as the last of the Grisly...

"For be a man’s intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men, without the...

"But I now leave my cetological system standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the cranes still...

"Ahab looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them, or taking...

"But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck’s fortitude, scarce might I have the...

But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God- so better is it to perish in that howling infinite,...