From: The Nut "For I believe that much of a man’s character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than...

From: The Blanket “Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.” How can we not feel...

From: Brit "The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so...

From The Spirit-Spout “And had you watched Ahab’s face that night, you would have thought that in him also two different things were...

From: The Spirit-Spout “It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled...

From Surmises: “For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to...

From The Chart “The heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever...

From Moby-Dick "[Ahab] morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the...

From Moby-Dick "Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at...

From: The Quarter-Deck "Speak, but speak!—Aye, aye! thy silence, then, that voices thee. " Musing: In this chapter, Ahab tells his crew...