We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

I could write stories just as rotten.