“Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.”

“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.”

“He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri.And as Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!”

“...there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.”

“and there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than the other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”

“So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have "broken his digester.”