That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.

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 easiest way of life is the best.

I try all things, I achieve what I can.

The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion.

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.