"For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying - the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring."

"Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we...

"Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?"

"When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliance of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it."

"For what's made in fire must properly belong to fire."

"Not easily can thou scorch a scar."

"For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books."

"But let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man."

"Take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates."

"Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy."