"But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of it."

"The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established by moulding public opinion, and right well it serves it."

"Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave."

"Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased."

"He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do."

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist."

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well."

"...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain."

"Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling."

"I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself."

"The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization."

"He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in their significances."

"For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work."

"His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him."

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

"Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so."

"He was not immoral, but merely unmoral."

"Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the "unknown", the terrible, the ever menacing and ever warring. But to him, in appearance and action and impulse, still clung the Wild."

"They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]"

"There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne."

"Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others."

"The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours long became a chronic complaint with him."

"She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men."

"Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery."

"Wolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all."

"Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t;"

"He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken."

"I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen"

"They alone moved through the vast inertness. They alone were alive, and they sought for other things that were alive in order that they might devour them and continue to live."

"Well, Buck my boy."

"It was during this period that he might have hearkened to the memories of the lair and the stream and run back to the Wild. But the memory of his mother held him...So he remained in his bondage waiting for her."

"Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me."

"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"

"Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light."

"He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish."

"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. Jack London"

"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

"There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them."

"He did not playfully shake him, as was his wont, or murmur soft love curses; but he whispered in his ear.'As you love me, Buck. As you love me,' was what he whispered. --Call of the Wild"

"In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been moulded in the making."

"Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances. He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it."

"Their hate bound them together as love could never bind."

"Man always gets less than he demands from life."

"Any man who was a man could travel alone."

"Woe of unnumbered generations"

"Again from its brumal sleep"

"He who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life."

"Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things."

"I reckon you've called the turn, Bill. That wolf's a dog, an' it's eaten fish many's the time from the hand of man. (ch. 2.)"

"Class supremacy can rest only on class degradation"