From The Spirit-Spout “And had you watched Ahab’s face that night, you would have thought that in him also two different things were...

From: The Spirit-Spout “It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled...

From Surmises: “For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to...

From The Chart “The heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever...

From Moby-Dick "[Ahab] morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the...

From Moby-Dick "Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at...

From: The Quarter-Deck "Speak, but speak!—Aye, aye! thy silence, then, that voices thee. " Musing: In this chapter, Ahab tells his crew...

From The Quarter-Deck “Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old rounds, upon planks so familiar to his...

From: The Specksnyder "This it is, that forever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest...

From Cetology "For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to...

From: Ahab "Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till...

From Knights and Squires "For it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valor in the soul. Men may seem...

From Knights and Squires “’I will have no man in my boat,’ said Starbuck, ‘who is not afraid of a whale.’ By this, he seemed to mean, not...

From The Lee Shore "Better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!"...

From: All Astir “But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly...

From The Ramadan “Let him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully...

From The Ship: "Stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!” Musing: This line struck me the first time I read Moby-Dick....

From "The Ship" “How now in the contemplative evening of his days, the pious Bildad reconciled these things in the reminiscence, I do not...

The Nightgown “Because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is...

From The Sermon: "I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?" Musing: Father Mapple...