"Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air."
"For what are the comprehensible terrors of a man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!"
"Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing."
"Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that."
Four from "The 74 most incredible lines in "Moby Dick" culled by Delia Cai
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