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

"Already several fatalities had attended his chase. But though similar disasters, however little bruited ashore, were by no means unusual...

"Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had...

"For not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events,- as the smitten tree gives birth...

"But those chaps there are worse yet- they are your white squalls, they. White squalls? white whale, shirr! shirr! [...] Oh! thou big...

"FRENCH SAILOR Merry-mad! Hold up thy hoop, Pip, till I jump through it! Split jibs! tear yourself! TASHTEGO (Quietly smoking) That’s a...

"The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and- Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer. Now,...

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

"Oh! I plainly see my miserable office,- to obey, rebelling; and worse yet, to hate with a touch of pity! For in his eyes I read some...

"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since...

"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. [ . . . ] If man will strike, strike though the mask! How can the prisoner reach...

"Though nominally included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it. He lived in the world as the last of the Grisly...

"For be a man’s intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men, without the...

"But I now leave my cetological system standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the cranes still...

"Ahab looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them, or taking...

"But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck’s fortitude, scarce might I have the...

But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God- so better is it to perish in that howling infinite,...

“Anything down there about your souls?” “About what?” “Oh, perhaps you hav’n’t got any,” he said quickly. “No matter though, I know many...

"He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn't speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be...

"Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff...