The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
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.
Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god’s property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.
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.
You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.
If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if they are looking to the mass market then they must develop WAP sites.
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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.
Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
A man with a club is a law-maker.
Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.