Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the word….

Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to rem….

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness..

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exerci….

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation..

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living..

...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight..

Only the man who says no is free.

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that pe….

Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits... they are swe….

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity..

Ignorance is the father of all fear..

There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble….

...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such….

Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all..

The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my ne….

But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, sc….

A man can be honest in any sort of skin..

Failure is the true test of greatness.

...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; Where as the smatterer in science...thinks tha….

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass..