Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

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

I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.