"First: What is a Fast-Fish? Alive or dead a fish is technically fast, when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium...

"A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it."

"A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it."

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

"As the harem of whales is called by the fishermen a school, so is the lord and master of that school technically known as the...

"But far beneath this wondrous world upon the surface, another and still stranger world met our eye."

"While ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy."

"We were now in that enchanted calm which they say lurks at the heart of every commotion."

"For there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."

"Who could tell whether, in that congregated caravan, Moby Dick himself might not temporarily be swimming, like the worshipped...