It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

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

But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.