From Loomings: "The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being...

"For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me...

"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure...

"On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search...

"Buoyed up by that coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirge-like main. The unharming sharks, they glided...

"And now, liberated by reason of its cunning spring, and owing to its great buoyancy, rising with great force, the coffin like-buoy shot...

"Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like...

"It so chanced, that after the Parsee's disappearance, I was he whom the Fates ordained to take the place of Ahab's bowsman, when that...

"At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged...

"And I only am escaped alone to tell thee." JOB The Drama's Done. Why then here does any one step forth? - Because one did survive the...