"Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters." Musing: The title of this...

"But why say more? All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the...

"Almost forgetting for the moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas have...

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously...

"But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it is also a fiend to its own off-spring; [ . . . ] . Like a savage...

"The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a...

"We know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one...

"Indeed, in other respects, you can hardly regard any creatures of the deep with the same feeling that you do those of the shore. For...

"Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called...

"Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and...

"'Swim away from me, do ye?" murmured Ahab, gazing over into the water. There seemed but little in the words, but the tone conveyed more...

"Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither before us; while thick in our rear flew the inscrutable...

"Mysteriously jetted into the clear moonlight, or starlight, as the case might be; disappearing again for one whole day, or two days, or...

"The strange, upheaving, lifting tendency of the taffrail breeze filling the hollows of so many sails, made the buoyant, hovering deck...

"It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of...

“Who would have thought it, Flask!” cried Stubb; “if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the...

"Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane. Besides, now and then such...

"After many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as...

"Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life and death peril so close to them ahead, yet with their eyes on the intense...

"After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all...