“'Aye, aye, men!'” cried Ahab. “'Look up at it; mark it well; the white flame but lights the way to the White Whale! Hand me those...

"At that moment in one of the intervals of profound darkness, following the flashes, a voice was heard at his side; and almost at the...

"Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure." Musing: The idea that...

“Well, well; I heard Ahab mutter, ‘Here some one thrusts these cards into these old hands of mine; swears that I must play them, and no...

“I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last,...

"Curse thee, thou vain toy; and cursed be all the things that cast man’s eyes aloft to that heaven, whose live vividness but scorches...

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by...

"Then falling into a moment’s revery, Ahab again looked up towards the sun and murmured to himself: 'Thou sea-mark! thou high and mighty...

"These are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger...

“'Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!'” deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the...

"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense...

"Death plucked down some virtuous elder brother, on whose whistling daily toil solely hung the responsibilities of some other family, and...

"Here, too, life dies sunwards full of faith, but see! no sooner dead, than death whirls round the corpse, and it heads some other way."...

"This tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his...

"In a word, it was Queequeg’s conceit, that if a man made up his mind to live, mere sickness could not kill him: nothing but a whale, or...

"Of all mortals, some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the...

"For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. And the drawing near of Death, which alike...

“He waxes brave, but nevertheless obeys; most careful bravery that!” Musing: Starbuck has just told Ahab to "beware of Ahab." Then...

"I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man.” Musing: This...

“There is one God that is Lord over the earth, and one Captain that is lord over the Pequod." Ahab directs this line at Starbuck. He also...