A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
H. G. WellsAlone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.
H. G. WellsNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WellsWar is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.
H. G. Wells