"For be a man's intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men, without the...

"For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the capstone to posterity."

"I have swam through libraries and sailed through oceans."

"Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can is my twelfth"

"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

"There was little or nothing, out of himself to employ or excite Ahab, now; and thus chase away, for that one interval, the clouds that...

"And not only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion in his face; in all the nameless regal overbearing...

"But man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his...

"For it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valor in the soul."

"'I will have no man in my boat,' said Starbuck, 'who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most...