For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who believe and tremble has one.
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man wh...
Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours—watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significa...
Oh, grassy glades! oh ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthly life,— in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover;...
Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most...
Skuta var topptung som en middagsløs student med hodet fullt av Aristoteles.
So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too...
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
The sky slides into blue, the bluffs into bloom; the rapid Mississippi expands; runs sparkling and gurgling, all over in eddies; one magnified wake of a seventy-four. The sun comes out, a golden huzza...
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior h...
The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man ente...
Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?
Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
A purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.
Fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon—so like a corkscrew now—was flung
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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