"It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)"

"Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read."

"He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial."

"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."

"I was jealous; therefore I loved."

"It was the worst hurt he had ever known."

"He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living."

"You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly"

"They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly."

"So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you."

"More you drink more you want"

"My mistake was in ever opening the books."

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

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

"The function of man is to live, not to exist."

"And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know."

"He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time."

"No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir."

"This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone."

"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."

"Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on."

"He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive."

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

"He was a silent fury who no torment could tame."