I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.)

Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the word-easy, easy-only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys-that's all. Start her!

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?

We cannibals must help these Christians.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.