There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.
H. G. WellsIt is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.
H. G. WellsMoney means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.
H. G. WellsBut I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.
H. G. Wells