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

"Such an added, gliding strangeness began to invest the thin Fedallah now; such ceaseless shudderings shook him; that the men looked...

"As the unsetting polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months’ night sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so...

"And now that all his successive meetings with various ships contrastingly concurred to show the demoniac indifference with which the...

"There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady. Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady becomes my most...

"Here now’s the very dreaded symbol of grim death, by a mere hap, made the expressive sign of the help and hope of most endangered life....

"So man’s seconds tick! Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts?" Musing: These are...

“Then tell me; art thou not an arrant, all-grasping, intermeddling, monopolizing, heathenish old scamp, to be one day making legs, and...

"The first man of the Pequod that mounted the mast to look out for the White Whale, on the White Whale’s own peculiar ground; that man...

Ahab: "Ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though...

"Oh, sir, let old Perth now come and rivet these two hands together; the black one with the white, for I will not let this go.” Musing:...

"As for the men, though some of them lowly rumbled, their fear of Ahab was greater than their fear of Fate. " Musing: Such a line! In...

Starbuck: "'I stand alone here upon an open sea, with two oceans and a whole continent between me and law.- Aye, aye, ‘tis so.- Is heaven...

Starbuck: "'I can’t withstand thee, old man. Not reasoning; not remonstrance; not entreaty wilt thou hearken to; all this thou scornest....

"Starbuck: 'But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?- Yes, it would make...

The Carpenter: "Then, if the hull go down, there’ll be thirty lively fellows all fighting for one coffin, a sight not seen very often...

“'All your oaths to hunt the White Whale are as binding as mine; and heart, soul, and body, lungs and life, old Ahab is bound. And that...

"As the silent harpoon burned there like a serpent’s tongue, Starbuck grasped Ahab by the arm—'God, God is against thee, old man;...

"Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire you made me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.” Musing: In this scene, Ahab...

"While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle,...