You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things...

Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer.

Morning to ye! Morning to ye!

What’s all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man’s a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.