Moby-Dick

"O, the green fields ahead, and the mountains of the land!"

"Art thou not overpowering me, thou monomaniac!"

"There is something in that crazedness that is fiery and mighty."

"I see not my reflection in the sea so plainly as I see thee in my heart."

"If man will strike, strike through the mask!"

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

"For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words."

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

"I am bound to that whale by cords wove of my very life-line."

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

"Thinking is, or it might be taught that some certain significance lurks in all things."

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

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

"Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing that kicked me with all the cruel violence of a horse!"

"The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man is solitariness."

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

"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Cape of Good Hope, and round by the Norway Maelstrom, and round by the mouth of the Bellstraight, and round by the instant Pole, and round and round the world, and still chase him."

"This is my living arm, and this is my living self."

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down."

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

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."

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

"There is a sacredness in things which makes us loath to abuse them."

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

"It is the whale's intrinsic nature to be wondrous."

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

"Call me Ishmael."