Moby-Dick

"Meditation and water are wedded for ever."

"I try the practice of truth and the abstinence of lies."

"Who ain't a slave? Tell me that."

"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed upon that worm."

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

"The Sperm Whale of the present day is as much altered from his Miocene predecessor as man is from Adam."

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke."

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

"Call me Ishmael."

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

"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."

"Some things are destined to be pursued, though never caught"

"The hunt continues even in death, echoing through eternity"

"In the face of the whale, all human pride is humbled"

"The ocean cares nothing for the dreams of men"

"A crew is only as strong as its weakest member's resolve"

"The compass of the soul points always toward the infinite"

"To ride upon the back of destiny is to court with death"

"There is no escape from the sea once you have answered its call"

"The whale's whiteness is both beautiful and terrible to behold"

"A man's fate is written upon the waves long before he sets sail"

"In the depths of the ocean lies truth beyond mortal comprehension"

"The white whale is not merely a whale, but a symbol of all that is unfathomable"

"What drives a man to madness but the pursuit of a thing he cannot have?"

"The line is rope; the rope is life"

"It is a blasphemous thing to pursue the very throne of heaven itself"

"All hell broke loose upon the deck of the Pequod"

"The hunt was eternal, without beginning and without end"

"No man is an island unto himself"

"To know him, you must know the sea that bears him"