My body is but the lees of my better being.

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

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

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

Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.