John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between one's immediate desires and long-learned morality. - Jack London

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers]

A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you.

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.