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

"And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it’s better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one."...

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

"How it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why do all the...

"But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope." I mean, come on. This...

"If any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow...

"What’s all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man’s a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to...

"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring...

Preamble - It is time to look at the more pleasant aspects of my favorite novel and abandon the comparisons between Ahab and _rump. I...

"For as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a...