Jack London quotes

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.

Jack London


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


Jack London


I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.



Jack London


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.


Jack London

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.


Jack London

Thoreau quotes

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

Henry David Thoreau



As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau


Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you,

opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought

Thoreau