Moby-Dick

"The whiteness of the whale haunted me forever"

"In this world a man must either be hammer or anvil"

"What a noble thing is toleration"

"Aye, aye, and further aft, the aftercastle full of old ivory"

"The sea is his element but he is not born there"

"There are certain queer times and occasions in the odd volume of a man's life"

"I will chase him round Good Hope and round the Horn and round the Cape of Good Hope"

"Man's mortality is the condiment that gives a relish to his life"

"There is something fatalistic about it all"

"I try the plane upon the little goddess of his nether parts"

"It is the whale's fault"

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

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

"The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails."

"I feel the horror of the half-known life."

"Who can show a pedigree of good or evil that stretches higher than Adam's?"

"This my bride, my wife, this world before me."

"I am bound to him by cords woven with my life-line into his life."

"I see, feel, and understand that which I see and feel."

"Be the whiteness of the whale my witness."

"There seems to be some sort of solemn satisfaction in it."

"In this same fanciful dream, I have turned the old world inside out."

"I have neither warmth, nor motion, nor essence, but only a voice, only a thought."

"Some unknown voice from below is calling me; some unknown voice calls."

"I will have the first night of my bridal bed!"

"All evil comes from us alone."

"Vengeance on a dumb brute that merely smote me from blindest instinct."

"My soul is more than matched; she tasks me."

"I stand for the symbol of a man stricken, smitten, and cast down."

"I feel as if the mightiest event in three universes was about to happen."