From Cetology "For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to...

From: Ahab "Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till...

From Knights and Squires "For it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valor in the soul. Men may seem...

From Knights and Squires “’I will have no man in my boat,’ said Starbuck, ‘who is not afraid of a whale.’ By this, he seemed to mean, not...

From The Lee Shore "Better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!"...

From: All Astir “But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly...

From The Ramadan “Let him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully...

From The Ship: "Stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!” Musing: This line struck me the first time I read Moby-Dick....

From "The Ship" “How now in the contemplative evening of his days, the pious Bildad reconciled these things in the reminiscence, I do not...

The Nightgown “Because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is...