And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.

But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing.

A whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama.

Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.

Sing out and say something, my hearties. Roar and pull, my thunderbolts! Beach me, beach me on their black backs, boys; only do that for me, and I'll sign over to you my Martha's Vineyard plantation, boys; including wife and children, boys.