To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married.

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

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

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.