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I drew my bench near him, and made some friendly signs and hints, doing my best to talk with him meanwhile.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me.

Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him.

There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilised hypocrisies and bland deceits.

This soothing savage had redeemed it.

No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world.

I felt a melting in me.

As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering round the casements, and peering in upon us silent, solitary twain; the storm booming...

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

But, perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving.

Surely this was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt he had never heard there was such a thing as that.

Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn that is -- which was the only way he could get there -- thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with...

All this struck me as mighty singular; yet upon second thoughts, there was something almost sublime in it.

1000 Eyes can see it better than you.

Imagine 1000 Eyes looking like that.

He made no advances whatever; appeared to have no desire to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances.

I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn.

At first they are overawing; their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Socractic wisdom.