In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.
H. G. WellsArson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.
H. G. WellsThere is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.
H. G. WellsI doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.
H. G. Wells