There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

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

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.