H. g. wells

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

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...

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the...

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

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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.