But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.