From The Jeroboam's Story:"Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic...

"Granting that the White Whale fully incites the hearts of this my savage crew, and playing round their savageness even breeds a certain...

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

"Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched...

"With the mad secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in him, Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one only...

"The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them,...

From Moby-Dick: "Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured...

"Not one jot of Ahab’s broad madness had been left behind; so in that broad madness, not one jot of his great natural intellect had...

"What I’ve dared, I’ve willed; and what I’ve willed, I’ll do! They think me mad—Starbuck does; but I’m demonic, I am madness maddened!"...

"Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all...

From Ahab: "Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship’s ever-pitching prow. There was an infinity of firmest...

"'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...

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

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

"'No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!'” Study: Captain Peleg says this line to Ishmael after Ishmael...

"But this fine young savage—this sea Prince of Wales [Queequeq], never saw the Captain's cabin. They put him down among the sailors, and...

"His [Queequeg's] countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his...

"He [Peter Coffin] did this in not only a civil but a really kind and charitable way. I stood looking at him a moment. For all his...

"For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so...

From Loomings: "The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being...