"I sailed with thee along the Peruvian coast last voyage—and, foolish as I am, taught thee, a green simple boy, how to splice a rope!"We like a tidy ship and then we goon on each other. 

"Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost thought you were standing in some illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsello...

"Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things loo...

"Immemorial to all his order, this investiture alone will adequately protect him, while employed in the peculiar functions of his office."The clothes of the butcher of whale blubber. A clergyman of and by the sailors. <...

"In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti."Squeezing sperm oil, detailing parts of the whale. Stop laughing you pervert.