The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.