Moby-Dick

"Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris."

"I am bound to that whale by an arc as essential as the crooked keel of my ship."

"The great Heidelburg Tun of the Sperm Whale."

"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength."

"This whole act is immutably decreed."

"Vengeance on a dumb brute!"

"The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails."

"To be enraged with you for sailing in an uneasy ship."

"Call me Ishmael."

"I try all things, I achieve what I can."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things."

"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul."

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

"It is the whale's accident to have a white hue."

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

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

"Thou art unsounded, unpenetrated, salt, and eternal."

"The great Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale."

"He has the most fearful, madening beauty about him."

"Humanity is but a step; but what a step it is!"

"Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all light and spite!"

"Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale!"

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair called life."

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

"The great God absolute!"

"Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance."

"All are born equal; but some are equaller than others."

"From hell's heart, I stab at thee."

"Aye, the three Mates are the three Fates."

"How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?"