"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under the water, unapparent for the most part, and...

"Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers."

"For it is one of the more curious things about this Leviathan, that his skeleton gives very little idea of his general shape."

"Yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings."

"And had you watched Ahab's face that night, you would have thought that in him also two different things were warring. While his one...

"I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest. I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with...

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast...

"There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol...

"With my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads."

"For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their...