Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
There's truths you have to grow into.
There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, andnot in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever ismore than animal within us must find its solace and its hope....
The stranger swore briefly but vividly.
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and...
The ocean rose up around me, hiding that low, dark patch from my eyes. The daylight, the trailing glory of the sun, went streaming out of the sky, was drawn aside like some luminous curtain, and at la...
The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts.
The day of democracy is past, he said. Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world, when c...
One can't always be magnificent, but simplicity is always a possible alternative.
Oliver, my professor, was a scientific bounder, a journalist by instinct, a thief of ideas,—he was always prying! And you know the knavish system of the scientific world. I simply would not publish, a...
I wish you'd keep your fingers out of my eye, said the aerial voice, in a tone of savage expostulation. The fact is, I'm all here:head, hands, legs, and all the rest of it, but it happens I'm invisibl...
I saw white figures. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body.
I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanenc...
For after the Battle comes quiet.
As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good, i...
And through it all, this destiny was before me, he said; this vast inheritance of which I did not dream.
To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.
You've made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.
An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and un...
We should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit.