"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper…"

"And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment."

"The warmly cool, clear, ringing perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, he…"

"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely —having little or no money in my purse, and nothing p…"

"There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs—commerce sur…"

"Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon."

"Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going…"

"Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever."

"But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic lan…"

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