"…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred."

"The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse."

"They, as a class, believed that they alone maintained civilization."

"I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist."

"San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories."

"And so it came that White Fang learned that the right to punish was something the gods reserved for themselves and denied to the lesser creatures under them."

"It was what should have been a bright summer day, but the smoke from the burning world filled the sky, through which the sun shone murkily, a dull and lifeless orb, blood-red and ominous."