"I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it. II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it. But what plays the...

"Another point of difference between the male and female schools is still more characteristic of the sexes. Say you strike a...

"But this occasional timidity is characteristic of almost all herding creatures. Witness, too, all human beings, how when herded together...

"For d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor. And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in...

The whale "is both ponderous and profound. And I am convinced that from the heads of all ponderous profound beings, such as Plato,...

"My dear sir, in this world it is not so easy to settle these plain things. I have ever found your plain things the knottiest of all. And...

"It is plain, then, that phrenologically the head of this Leviathan, in the creature's living intact state, is an entire delusion. As for...

"For I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull,...

"Therefore, though I am but ill qualified for a pioneer, in the application of these two semi-sciences to the whale, I will do my...

"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being...