"Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all...

From Ahab: "Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship’s ever-pitching prow. There was an infinity of firmest...

"'I will have no man in my boat,' said Starbuck, 'who is not afraid of a whale.' By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most...

"But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up...

"Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult...

"'No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!'” Study: Captain Peleg says this line to Ishmael after Ishmael...

"But this fine young savage—this sea Prince of Wales [Queequeq], never saw the Captain's cabin. They put him down among the sailors, and...

"His [Queequeg's] countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his...

"He [Peter Coffin] did this in not only a civil but a really kind and charitable way. I stood looking at him a moment. For all his...

"For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so...