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

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.

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.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.