From The Pulpit "Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second...

From The Chapel "How it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss;...

From The Spouter-Inn "What’s all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man’s a human being just as I am: he has...

From The Spouter-Inn "Projecting from the further angle of the room stands a dark-looking den—the bar—a rude attempt at a right whale’s...

From Loomings: "I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts....

From Loomings "Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself. Such a portentous and mysterious monster...

Chapter 1: Loomings "Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries...

From Chapter 32: Cetology "For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone...

From: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin "But, mastering his emotion, he [Starbuck] half calmly rose, and as he quitted the cabin, paused for...

From Schools and School Masters "Another point of difference between the male and female schools is still more characteristic of the...

From The Tail "Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength...

From : The Fountain "Rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor. And so, through all the thick mists of the dim...

From: The Grand Armada "Witness, too, all human beings, how when herded together in the sheepfold of a theatre’s pit, they will, at the...

From The Monkey-Rope "If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True, you...

From The Monkey-Rope "I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two; that my...

From: The Jeroboam's Story "Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic...

"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn...

"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously...

"Ignorance is the parent of fear." Ishmael needs a place to sleep before he looks for a whaling ship he can join as a crew member. At The...