Moby-Dick

"I baptize thee not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil"

"Some men are born with the eternal worm that gnaws within them"

"Once more the try-works were fiercely stoked; the long rows of casks began loading"

"What is the cause that my soul is thus loosened from its moorings"

"Death to Moby Dick! God hunt us all if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!"

"In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich"

"I am bound to that fisherman's hammer-headed shark"

"The riches of the whale are as yet untold"

"Strike through the mask! That is the key!"

"He tasks me; he heaps me"

"Madness is to be alive and to see"

"The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run"

"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home"

"This is my substitute for powder and ball"

"I feel as a lost soul upon an unfathomed waste and solitude"

"For there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men"

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

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

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

"Call me Ishmael"

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

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

"I try the lost child's charity of the sea"

"There is a grandeur about the contemplation of that leviathan."

"The whale, I see by thy countenance, means something to thee."

"Some invisible power seemed to be driving him on."

"I see, I see! There is a fearful truth there."

"The sea rolls on; it rolls onward still, carrying my message down and down into the depths."

"Aye, aye! and I'll have a whaleboat to myself."

"There is no steady unreeling progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause."