The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

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

It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.