Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

I have no time to be in a hurry.

Every oak tree started as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Strength is an empty shell.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

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

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

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

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

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.