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

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky.

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.