I don't know things. I'm not good enough. I'm not refined. The more you see of me, the more you'll find me out.' 'But I'm going to help you.''You'll 'ave to 'elp me a fearful lot.
How often things must have been seen and dismissed as unimportant, before the speculative eye and the moment of vision came! It was Gilbert, Queen Elizabeth's court physician, who first puzzled his br...
He lit the dining-room lamp, got out a cigar, and began pacing the room, ejaculating.
For the man who stood there shouting some incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the coat-collar of him, and then — nothingness, no visible thing at all!
Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is no...
And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he said, in the incapacity to frame delicately different sounding symbols by which thought could be sustained
Ages ago, thousands of generations ago, man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine. And now that brother was coming back—changed!
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.
I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires.
With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.
There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.
The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence.
Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
Looks to me like the sort of fellow one doesn't play cards with.
I did not feel a bit sorry for my father. He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality. The
He showed it to me with all the confiding zest of a man who has been living too much alone. This seclusion was overflowing now in an excess of confidence, and I had the good luck to be the recipient.