H. G. Wells

“There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.”

“Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.”

“The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.”

“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”

“Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.”

“Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.”

“The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russi...”

“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”

“There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

“While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified,...”

“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education...”

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

“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”

“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not...”

“The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.”

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”