"To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order. He...

"The Sperm Whale is in some cases sufficiently powerful, knowing, and judiciously malicious, as with direct aforethought to stave in,...

"So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain...

"But not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual celebrity- nay, you may call it an oceanwide renown; not only was he...

"And here, his mad mind would run on in a breathless race; till a weariness and faintness of pondering came over him! and in the open air...

"Therefore, the tormented spirit that glared out of bodily eyes, when what seemed Ahab rushed from his room, was for the time but a...

"Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, [ . . . ] and when, as was sometimes the...

"While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for...

"And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues- every stately or lovely emblazoning-...

"Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind...