Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image