The Wanderers of Time

It is a funny thing that for most men the whitest conscience is no protection from some apprehension in the presence of the police.

She showed all that maternal solicitude which so oddly hopes that its child will be outstanding while being absolutely normal, distinguished while being indistinguishable.

"There's plenty o' chaps full of book learnin' an' unemployed with it."

"The fact that we don't know how to do it doesn't prove its impossibility."

"Doubtless the first arrow did not kill a lion."

It takes civilised people quite a while to appreciate 'the big lie' technique.

"What is the use of life?"

"A man's the same as the rest of us or 'e's a freak. Stands to reason."

"To take an illustration—a bad one, I admit, but enough for our purpose—one may consider time as a river. You may turn boats adrift on it at many points, and they will all collect together at the same serious obstacle, whether they have travelled a hundred miles or two miles."