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...

From The Castaway: “The sea had jeeringly kept his [Pip’s] finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely,...

From: The Castaway “Damn him, cut!” roared Stubb; and so the whale was lost and Pip was saved. [ . . . ] But we are all in the hands of...

From Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish “What are the Rights of Man and the Liberties of the World but Loose-Fish? What all men’s minds and...

The Fountain: “And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog...

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...