It is a funny thing that for most men the whitest conscience is no protection from some apprehension in the… — John Wyndham

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."