Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

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.)

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.