You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. (You perceive I employ a capital initial in the pronoun referring to the Deity; don't you think there is a slight dash of flunkeyism in that usage?).