Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. WellsMan ... 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.
H. G. WellsSuccess is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
H. G. WellsThere 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.
H. G. WellsIt is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
H. G. WellsSo it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?
H. G. Wells