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.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

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.