Moby-Dick

"In the soul of man there is a hunger for the infinite"

"The great Whale himself was not more firmly rooted in the imagination"

"Some men are born with the gift of the sea"

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate"

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

"Here then is the highest honor that a man can achieve: to be remembered by his deeds"

"One damp, drizzly November in my soul"

"Aye, he is more than a match for all the men on earth"

"I own thy speechless, placeless power; said I not so?"

"There is something ever more piquant about the hunt of an armed foe"

"The Pequod's decks were cleared like a slaughter-house"

"Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves!"

"What is the will and the heart of man but a small craft in the midst of the elements?"

"I see in him outrageous strength with an inscrutable malice sinewing it"

"The very essence of the tragic lies in the necessity of the struggle"

"He tasks me; he heaps me"

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

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

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

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

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever"

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

"Man's insanity is heaven's sense"

"There is a certain madness in the pursuit of truth"

"I would strike the sun if it insulted me"

"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"

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

"I am bound to that white whale by cords woven into my very soul"