Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

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.

The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.

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