Moby-Dick

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

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

"I try all things, I achieve what I can; therefore I am content."

"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it."

"For I am bound to that fisherman by a sort of structure in the very bones of his body."

"The Pequod was my Yale College and my Harvard."

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

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

"To be sociable, I added some flour to the fuel."

"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 as soon as I can."

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

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

"Call me Ishmael."

"I stand alone upon this vast, mild ocean."

"He tasks me with his command, and I should obey, though he commanded me to jump into a burning crater."

"All evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick."

"The great object of the Pequod's voyage was the White Whale."

"What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts?"

"Now, then, hear me! That which came to me in a dream, I live to fulfil."

"This iron bonds all round; that is, if ye be all ready to chop that bond."

"Ye understand therefore that my oath hath been a covenant with ye ere this."

"Ye see an old man cut down to his gristle."

"This instant will I discharge my duty!"

"I will have the first one for luck."

"The one to be chased for some wise purpose hereafter to be revealed."

"But Ahab was not yet within the compass of the harpoon."

"He saw not his shadow before him, and Ahab followed hard after it."

"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it?"

"The moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase."

"Some think the Pequod's crew are all charms and conjurers."