H. G. Wells

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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 Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

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

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.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.