"Look not too long into the face of the fire, O man!"

"Come; let us squeeze hands all around; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the...

"So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to...

"He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad."

"Out from the center of the sea, poor Pip turned his crisp, curling, black head to the sun, another lonely castaway, though the loftiest...

"The sea had jeeringly kept his [Pip's] finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul."

"But we are all in the hands of the Gods."

"Though man loves his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence."

"Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a...

"What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish? And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?"