From The Sermon: "I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?" Musing: Father Mapple...

From The Pulpit "Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second...

From The Chapel "How it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss;...

From The Spouter-Inn "What’s all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man’s a human being just as I am: he has...

From The Spouter-Inn "Projecting from the further angle of the room stands a dark-looking den—the bar—a rude attempt at a right whale’s...

From Loomings: "I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts....

From Loomings "Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself. Such a portentous and mysterious monster...

Chapter 1: Loomings "Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries...

From Chapter 32: Cetology "For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone...

From: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin "But, mastering his emotion, he [Starbuck] half calmly rose, and as he quitted the cabin, paused for...