It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show. The way I came by it was this... - Herman Melville

Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.