💬 Quotes

"He knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us!"

"Please, sir, I want some more."

"The principle of self-preservation is universally acknowledged to be the first law of nature."

"Some casual lamps in the street flickered feebly, but rise where it would, a dark and heavy fog hung low upon the town."

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

"If the law supposes that,' said the beadle, ... 'the law is a ass—a idiot.'"

"The kindest and most tender-hearted of women seldom shrink from doing as much wrong to the object of their real or fancied dislike, as the most vindictive men."

"Buck's feet were sore, and he was tired. Yet, deep within him, the call of the wild was sounding louder than ever before."

"Domestication was a thin veneer, easily stripped away by the harsh realities of the frost and the law of club and fang."

"He was no longer the pampered pet of Judge Miller's place; he was a killer, fierce and cunning, perfectly adapted to the unforgiving wilderness."

"In the face of death and extreme survival, companionship was forged not out of affection, but out of mutual dependence and respect for strength."

"The ghost dogs of the past whispered to him in the silence of the snow, guiding his steps toward his true destiny."

"To survive in the North, one had to listen to the ancient voice—the call that demanded freedom above comfort and life above all else."

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

"It is a formidable block of philosophy, but there is well-nigh as much noise in the world as there is music."

"There is a realm in which the most astute police investigator is out of his depth."

"The longer you stay the more you will realize that I am a dogmatic person, who packs his own impressions down into neat little dogmatic bundles."

"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"

"Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing... It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising many-sided manner to something entirely different."

"I must govern myself, may not seek my own gratification, in hoping to make a brute of another."