I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.