There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

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

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

He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself.

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.