He cut short my request for something to eat, snapping out, I don't believe you want to work.Now this was irrelevant. I hadn't said anything about work. The topic of conversation I had introduced was...
Says O'Sullivan to me, Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh? Certainly, says I; what can I do for you? Sell me your sea- boots, Mr. Fay, says O'Sullivan, polite as can be. But what will you be wantin' of...
To be able to forget means sanity.
Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line between wrong mind and sane mind? It is inconceivable that any sane man can radically disagree with...
A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.
Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
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 refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a ca...
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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 magnific...
Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.
At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.
So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those tha...
But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or gl...
And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.
Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
Class supremacy can rest only on class degradation