H.G. Wells

He liked to address every man in his own language, as a good European should.

Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!--I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is--chilly for a man without clothes.

...And spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be.