"I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar."

"Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them."

"Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part."

"My body is but the lees of my better being."

"All mortal greatness is but disease."

"Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!"

"Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?"

"Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?"

"[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."

"[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago."

"...hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling..."

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."

"In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere."

"Ah, Humanity"

"You cannot hide the soul."

"Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own."

"And tell him to paint me a sign, with-"no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;" might as well kill both birds at once."

"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."

"I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best."

"The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run"

"There is all the different in the world between paying and being paid."

"All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad."

"A purse is but a rag unless you have something in it."

"At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before"

"Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs"

"Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks."

"Will you, or will you not, quit me?' I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. 'I would prefer not to quit you', he replied, gently emphasizing the not."

"Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever."

"Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a living. Oh! happy that the world is such an excellent listener!"

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

"There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!"

"To be hated cordially is only a left-handed compliment"

"But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!"

"Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor"

"...what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!"

"For there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself."

"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."

"...the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open..."

"And yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes."

"Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?"

"And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment."

"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up."

"Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another."

"There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them."

"Art is the objectification of feeling"