A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration..

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time..

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!.

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

The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changin….

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him..

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

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death..

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

To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils wer….

You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have r….

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel..

He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more en….

Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool….

My mistake was in ever opening the books..

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united..

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..

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?.

A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All tha….

Affluence means influence..

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 ra….