Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his… - Jack London

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

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.

But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called — called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.