Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

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.

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

Strength is an empty shell.

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.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.