Moby-Dick

"I try the lost child's charity of the universe."

"To die chasing him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the mast, and round the world, is my destiny."

"He spake little; but to every word he uttered he seemed a sentence of Doom."

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

"God, God is against thee, old man."

"The sea calmly rolls on; we carve but one inscription upon her; our gulls are soon lost in her limitless waste."

"Art thou too proud a man, Starbuck, to obey this work? Take the mainmast. Stand by!"

"Some unknown conduit from the unknown deeps send up a bloodlike stream to the surface."

"I now leave my cetological system standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon its top."

"To be enraged with your enemy is to be injured by him."

"For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern."

"Why this striving and this strife of the chase? why weary and palsy oneself on such a pilgrimage?"

"I will have the first blow at him. You shall see; I will have the first blow!"

"Now I stand upon this mast-head alone, and feel as if the whole world were but my oyster."

"The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul."

"There is a brotherhood between all men who meet in darkness."

"Queequeg is my well-beloved friend and brother."

"The same waves wash the moles of the New York stock list and the sod of the five points."

"I am the Ery of the ship! The captain of this crew!"

"Meditation and water are wedded for ever."

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

"So full of this reigning now, and here so calm, ye can endure to live in all this howling infinite, and cast your lot with ours."

"We are all somehow docked together; we leak as we go."

"Some uncertain wakings he would have; some slumbering; rouse himself as if out of a dream."

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

"Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest."

"The monkey-rope was fast at both ends; truly this double bondage seemed strange."

"This island of Nantucket must have been laid out originally in the moonlight."

"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the mast and round the world, and all round the world, and keep chasing him still if he dive."

"A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy."