It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

The Stone the Builders Rejected.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.