...his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself. - Jack London

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.

But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.

At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.