“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”

“The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.”

“For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well. I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow, and suddenly confronted by the work of a dozen busy navvies digging the foundations of a house. I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer master, but an animal among animals; under the Martian heel.”

“Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?”

“Civilization is a race between disaster and education.”

“So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.”

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”