The easiest way of life is the best.

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible in its nature, itself the first visible, and that by which all things are seen, light represents to us Christ. Whose generation none can declare, but Who must shine upon us ere we can know aught aright, whether of things Divine or human.