There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.
Of such a letter, Death himself might well have been the post-boy.
It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thys...
I try all things, I achieve what I can.
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.
Born in throes, ‘t is fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So be it, then!
And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they so...
War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Yet, after all, insensible as he is to a thousand wants, and removed from harassing cares, my not the savage be the happier man..?
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.
Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee!
Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a...
It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority.
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it...
He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
وأنا الصياد الذى لا يرتاح أبداَ.الصياد الذى لا وطن له.والتى أقصدها ما تزال تطير أمامى;وأنا سأتبعها،مع أنها قادتنى إلى ماوراء الجبال،