H. G. Wells

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.