Moby-Dick

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

"The cabin lamp cast its light upon the white canvas of my soul."

"In this world, some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"It was not a dull monotony of blind obedience."

"Hell is an idea first born on an unequal heel of power."

"O, she is too noble a ship to be left thus, she is too brave a thing!"

"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale."

"It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me."

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

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

"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up."

"I am the Emir of the seas, and Allah is the God of the heavens."

"A strange sort of insanity then came over me."

"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."

"I am bound to that ship as Ixion to his wheel."

"The whale is far more of a gentle fellow and a philosopher than many are apt to think him."

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

"There are some certain queer times and places in this odd world when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke."

"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."

"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength with an inscrutable malice sinewing it."

"This is my substitute for powder and ball."

"Ahab never thinks; he only feels, acts."

"I know that of me, which I know not of myself."

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

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast."

"Call me Ishmael."

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

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

"It is the biggest sort of bigotry to believe there is but one sort of bigotry."

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