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.
H. G. WELLSThe 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.
H. G. WELLSThere’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.
H. G. WELLSMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLSThe past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSAdvertising is legalized lying.
H. G. WELLSIf we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLSNo passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSWe have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLSSome people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. WELLS