"How it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why do all the...

"But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope." I mean, come on. This...

"If any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow...

"What’s all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man’s a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to...

"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring...

Preamble - It is time to look at the more pleasant aspects of my favorite novel and abandon the comparisons between Ahab and _rump. I...