"Ignorance is the parent of fear." Ishmael needs a place to sleep before he looks for a whaling ship he can join as a crew member. At The...

"In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent. The permanent constitutional...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy...

"God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a...

"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and...

"Oh! time was, when as the sunrise nobly spurred me, so the sunset soothed. No more. This lovely light, it lights not me; all loveliness...

"Stand up amid the general hurricane, thy one tossed sapling cannot, Starbuck!" Ahab is the speaker of this quote. He has just convinced...

"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but...

"The most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but an utterly fearless...

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