"But when man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up...

"Better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!"

"When a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an...

"I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person,...

"It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one."

"For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but...

"Very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world...

"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."

"Because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is...

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at...