The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

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.

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.