Ishmael

"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."

"This wild air we breathe is the most delightful thing we can feel."

"Oh, the rare old Whale, mid all the hurry and clamor of the world here, I stand alone in the moonlight."

"I am the Ape that prances on the platform of the world."

"The masthead was our paradise; the whale our serpent."

"I feel as if the mightiest event in three universes was about to happen."

"All evil comes from us alone."

"I will have the first night of my bridal bed!"

"Some unknown voice from below is calling me; some unknown voice calls."

"I have neither warmth, nor motion, nor essence, but only a voice, only a thought."

"In this same fanciful dream, I have turned the old world inside out."

"I see, feel, and understand that which I see and feel."

"This my bride, my wife, this world before me."

"Who can show a pedigree of good or evil that stretches higher than Adam's?"

"I feel the horror of the half-known life."

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

"There is something fatalistic about it all"

"Man's mortality is the condiment that gives a relish to his life"

"There are certain queer times and occasions in the odd volume of a man's life"

"The sea is his element but he is not born there"

"What a noble thing is toleration"

"The whiteness of the whale haunted me forever"

"Meditation and water are wedded forever"

"A whale ship was my Yale College and Harvard"

"It was the whiteness that unmanned me"

"Some certain significance lurks in all things"

"The mask through which the divine appears"

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast"

"Stupidity and beauty are often wedded"

"The monkey rope holds us both suspended"