Moby-Dick

"The sea is his; he owns it as emperors own empires"

"Ye are not other men, but my arms and my legs"

"I swear by the white whale's hump, I will not rest until I rest in his blood"

"The coffin was some sort of baffle or fender off the vessel's side"

"Better to sleep with a sober whale than a drunken captain"

"The Pequod's a Quaker; its a Quaker also in the Equatorial waters"

"This is my biography of the whale"

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

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

"I will have no man in my boat who is not afraid of a whale"

"The crew has lost their full manhood"

"I am bound to him by cords woven of my very heart-strings"

"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn"

"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things"

"This is my living act, and this is the text of my sermon"

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

"There is one God that is Lord over the earth and one Captain that is lord over the Pequod"

"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me"

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

"I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Cape of the Good Hope, and round the Norway Maelstrom"

"Aye, but this wounded whale, he will stay, the wounded whale cannot be far"

"It is not down on any map; true places never are"

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, or in nothing"

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

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

"Call me Ishmael"

"I try the riches of the whole wide world"

"I stand alone here upon an open sea, with two oceans and a continent between me and the law."

"Better to sleep with a sober Montanan than wake with a drunk Bedouin."

"Beneath the radiance of an aurora borealis, I seemed almost to possess a gun that was not mine."