Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.
H. G. WellsAfter people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. WellsThe Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
H. G. WellsAlexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
H. G. Wells