The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

It's against reason, " said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.

And then she learnt to be a little wild she had to be a little less afraid.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.

I would like immortality.

Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.

In all our losses, all our gains, In all our pleasures, all our pains, The life of life is: Love remains. In every change from good to ill,- If love continues still, Let happen then what will.

Curiosity fed the dog.