Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism. - Herman Melville

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!