"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, a…"

"Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, d…"

"Call me Ishmael."

"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — th…"

"There are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk …"

"From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That…"

"I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any o…"

"Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals."

"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

"The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck."