“How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish?”

“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”

“for I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool...”

“See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”

“...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”

“Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.”

“So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.”