"So long as a man's eyes are open in the light, the act of seeing is involuntary."

"Here, now, are two great whales, laying their heads together; let us join them, and lay together our own."

"That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is life; those sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and between sharks and spades you are in...

"O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! Not the smallest atom stirs or lives in matter, but...

"Of erections, how few are domed like St. Peter's? Of creatures, how few vast as the whale?"

"Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does that...

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

"Consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean...

"Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless sea overruns the globe."

"Wherein differ the sea and the land, that a miracle on one is not a miracle on the other?"