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

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

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

If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.