From: The Symphony "Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an...

From: The Log and the Line "Come! I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an Emperor’s!” Musing: Here is...

From: The Quadrant "'Well, well; I [Stubb] heard Ahab mutter, ‘Here some one thrusts these cards into these old hands of mine; swears...

From: Queequeg in His Coffin "And this tattooing [Queequeg's] had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by...

From: Ahab and Starbuck in The Cabin "'He waxes brave, but nevertheless obeys; most careful bravery that!' murmured Ahab, as Starbuck...

From: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin "Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most South-Sea-men’s cabin furniture),...

From: Ahab's Leg "The most poisonous reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so,...

The Fossil Whale "One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then,...

The Doubloon: "And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an...

The Try-Works: "Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the...