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."

H.G. Wells

"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."

H.G. Wells

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

H.G. Wells