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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body—has a spirit—is organic—and fluid to the influence of its spirit—and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me

The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors;

If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.

Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag & exaggeration.

I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.

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

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God? - to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me - that is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.

For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who believe and tremble has one.