Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it.
Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it. I had ma...
The worst of all things that haunt poor mortal men, said I; and that is, in all its nakedness - 'Fear!' Fear that will not have light or sound, that will not bear with reason, that deafens and darkens...
The sky was no longer blue. North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars. Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastw...
The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.
Sometimes I doubt if the game is worth the candle. (...) But I know if I abandoned my ambition—hardly as she uses me—I should have nothing but remorse left for the rest of my days.
One may as well starve one's body out of a place as to starve one's soul in one.
No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fict...
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have...
Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.
Let’s be sure we’d be acting perfectly right in bustin’ that there door open. A door onbust is always open to bustin’, but ye can’t onbust a door once you’ve busted en.
I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.
I did not feel a bit sorry for my father. He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality. The
Even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do me...
By our daylight standard he walked out of security into darkness, danger, and death.But did he see like that?
But to me the future is still black and blank–is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers –shrivelled now, a...
Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fr...