At Sea A Fellow Comes Out. Salt

To Produce A Mighty Book, You Must Choose A Mighty Theme.

And, As For Me, If, By Any Possibility, There Be Any As Yet Undiscovered Prime Thing In Me; If I Shall Ever Deserve Any Real Repute In That Small But High Hushed World Which I Might Not Be Unreasonably Ambitious Of ; If Hereafter I Shall Do Anything That, Upon The Whole, A Man Might Rather Have Done Than To Have Left Undone ; If, At My Death, My Executors, Or More Properly My Creditors, Find Any Precious Mss. In My Desk, Then Here I Prospectively Ascribe All The Honour And The Glory To Whaling; For A Whale-ship Was My Yale College And My Harvard.

We May Have Civilized Bodies And Yet Barbarous Souls.

The Terrors Of Truth And Dart Of Death To Faith Alike Are Vain.

Woe To Him Who Seeks To Please Rather Than Appall.