Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated, the inevitable is foreseen. One is not even made wet by the rain nor cold by the frost; while death, instead of stalking about gruesome and accidental, becomes a prearranged pageant, moving along a well-oiled groove to the family vault, where the hinges are kept from rusting and the dust from the air is swept continually away.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.