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, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
H. G. Wells

Some 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

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, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells

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?
H. G. Wells

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. Wells

Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells

Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. Wells

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

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells

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

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

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. Wells

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. Wells

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.
H. G. Wells

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells

In 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. Wells

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. Wells