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

"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."

"Again from its brumal sleep"

"Woe of unnumbered generations"

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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"

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

"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"

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

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

"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"

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

"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, Buck my boy."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."