Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim can not resolve?

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

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

Silence is the only Voice of our God.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite.

Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens.