If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

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

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.