The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

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

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.