"Thought Queequeq, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."

"New cruises were on the start; and with that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and with a second ended,...

"But, alas! the practices of whale-men soon convinced Queequeq that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more...

"See how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them."

"Because no man can ever feel his own identity unless his eyes are closed."

"Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow."

"How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends."

"But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God? - to do to my fellow man what I would have...

"I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy."

"But perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving."