They were put into my pockets by Weena, when I traveled into Time.
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonabl...
I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that is another matter.
You may kill me, but I can hold you - and all the universe for that matter - in the grip of this small brain. I would not change. Even now
At times I suffered from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me. I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space,...
And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness st...
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
On the village green an inclined strong, down which, clinging the while to a pulley-swung handle, one could be hurled violently against a sack at the other end, came in for considerable favour among t...
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.
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger and trouble.... Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There...
Mr. Thomas Marvel hated roomy shoes, but then he hated damp. He had never properly thought out which he hated most