H.G. Wells, The History Of Mr. Polly Quotes

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination

...he was not so much a human as a civil war.

He buried his nose in his pillow and went to sleep—to dream of anything rather than getting on in the world, as a sensible young man in his position ought to have done.