"Because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is...

"I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to...

"For what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?" Musing: This is the last of Father Mapple's sermon and more words...

"Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in this...

"But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do—remember that—and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to...

"Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick...

"But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope." Musing: Holy crap-...

"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...

"Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say- here, here lies my beloved; ye know not the...

"A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper...

"At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that...

"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal. What’s all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to...

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

"There is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction...

"Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first...

"For forty years I have fed upon dry salted fare- fit emblem of the dry nourishment of my soul!- when the poorest landsman has had fresh...

"Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine...

"It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only the pensive air was...

"But the suddenly started Pequod was not quick enough to escape the sound of the splash that the corpse soon made as it struck the sea;...

"So Ahab’s proceedings in this matter were not unusual; the only strange thing about them seemed to be, that Starbuck, almost the one...