I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

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.