One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away.

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea's breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.