After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.