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

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.

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.

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.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.