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...
A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
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...
Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.
He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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.
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...
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.
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.
To be able to forget means sanity.
Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.
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...
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...
At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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.
In the height of the gusts, in my high position, where the seas did not break, I found myself compelled to cling tightly to the rail to escape being blown away. My face was stung to severe pain by the...
Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.