Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSLeaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSNo passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLSThe past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLSMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLSHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSAfter people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. WELLSThe 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?
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSIn England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
H. G. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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