God is liberal of color; so should man be.

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.

I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.