Ishmael

"Call me Ishmael."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"It is the whale's intrinsic nature to be wondrous."

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"There is a sacredness in things which makes us loath to abuse them."

"The great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last."

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down."

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."

"The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man is solitariness."

"Thinking is, or it might be taught that some certain significance lurks in all things."

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words."

"The Pequod was my Yale College and my Harvard."

"Some think the Pequod's crew are all charms and conjurers."

"The moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase."

"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it?"

"He saw not his shadow before him, and Ahab followed hard after it."

"But Ahab was not yet within the compass of the harpoon."

"The one to be chased for some wise purpose hereafter to be revealed."

"What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts?"

"The great object of the Pequod's voyage was the White Whale."

"All evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick."

"I stand alone upon this vast, mild ocean."

"Call me Ishmael."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."

"To be sociable, I added some flour to the fuel."

"It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him."