Jack London

"Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do."

"I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself."

"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

"Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest."

"There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge."

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog."

"I love the flesh. Im a pagan. “Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!”"

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

"Age is never so old as youth would measure it."

"He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it."

"The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances."

"Against the wall, near the head of the bunk, was a rack filled with books. I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey. There were scientific works too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin."