Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.