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.

— H. G. Wells

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

Our true nationality is mankind.

— H. G. Wells

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

— H. G. Wells

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.

— H. G. Wells

The future is the shape of things to come.

— H. G. Wells

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. Wells

The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

— 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