Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

"It's this way," he said. "I am not a fool. I know what I want, and I
want what I want. I am alone in the world, outside of good friends
like you, of course, and I have my own ideas of the world and what I
want to do in it. I didn't come home because of a sense of duty to
anybody here. I came home because it was time, because of my sense of
duty to myself. I'm all the better from my three years of wandering
about, and now it's up to me to go on with my education--my book
education, I mean."