Moby Dick (Complete Unabridged Edition)

by Herman Melville

But that was certainly very coolly done by him, and every one knows that in most people’s estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.

Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions.

Because a laugh’s the wisest, easiest answer to all that’s queer; and come what will, one comfort’s always left—that unfailing comfort is, it’s all predestinated.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.

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.

For God’s sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man’s blood was spilled for it.

Bunger, when you die, you ought to die in pickle, you dog; you should be preserved to future ages, you rascal.”