"The truth is, that living or dead, if but decently treated, whales as a species are by no means creatures of ill odor."

"Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a...

"Forget not the strange fact that of all things of ill-savor, Cologne-water, in its rudimental manufacturing stages, is the worst."

"Though the word ambergris is but the French compound for grey amber, yet the two substances are quite distinct."

"And this, good friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an ounce to any druggist."

"It’s against my principles to drink with the man I’ve diddled."

"But is the Queen a mermaid, to be presented with a tail? An allegorical meaning may lurk here."

"From the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the context, means, that of all whales captured by anybody on the coast of...

"What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish? What is the great globe itself but a...

"A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it."