Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

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

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.