Moby-Dick

"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."

"The Pequod's crew were nearly all Isolatoes too, I and my companions were joint wooden-legged kings all, owning allegiance to none but the Captain of the Pequod."

"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength with an inscrutable malice."

"I would strike the sun if it insulted me."

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

"It is the whiteness of the whale that appals me."

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

"I try the locked drawers and the cupboards; but the cabin belongs to Captain Ahab and I have no business with it."

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

"Call me Ishmael."

"I am bound to that white whale by cords woven of my very life-line. I am bound to him; I will chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the mast of the Icy Glen, and round the world's end, and still chase him into Hell."

"Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate and torment man."

"In some certain sense, the whole visible universe is but an illusion."

"Better rest and be thankful."

"I am not a thin man but broad in the beam."

"The secret source of his stubborness is fixed in his unreasoning rejection."

"Thus we mortals cross the seas and visit strange lands."

"To strike at the sun if it insulted me."

"I see, I see with my soul."

"The wind that fills a man's sail need not drive him into other men's ports."

"The whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."

"What is this that is in me that stands over the billows of my whole head?"

"I feel as a prisoner in his own ship."

"This whale of mine is not a dumb brute to be slain."

"Aye, aye! And thus the invisible spheres were formed."

"The whale, as it appears to be, ought to be examined."

"A dead whale or a stove boat!"

"I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders."

"All that most maddens and torments."

"There is a rope wound around me."