If you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
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 signifi...
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
لكنه يبدو وحيدًا، وحيدًا تمامًا في الكون، قطعة من حطام سفينة في عرض الأطلنطي
Loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses
What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think...
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123)
Oh, trebly hooped and welded hip of power! Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!—that one strives, this one jettest all in vain! In vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun,...
Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.
Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free.
Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale!
My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear,...
It is not down on any map; true places never are.
In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
In this world, headwinds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim).
Even though white is often associated with things, that are pleasant and pure, there is a peculiar emptiness about the color white. It is the emptiness of the white that is more disturbing, than even...
Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale's there? It is the same he died with, only some of the longer wrinkles in the forehead seem now faded away. I think his broad brow to be full of a prair...
But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort. She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they...
At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.