flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

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.

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

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