“Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.”

“I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.”

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

“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.”

“Sooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then...Governments and powers will struggle to get hither, they will fight against one another and against these moon people. It will only spread warfare and multiply the occasions of war. In a little while, in a very little while if I tell my secret, this planet to it's deepest galleries will be strewn with human dead. Other things are doubtful, but this is certain...It is not as though man had any use for the moon. What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battleground and theatre of infinite folly? Small as his world is, and short as his time, he has still in his little life down there far more than he can do. No! Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand. Let him find it out for himself again-in a thousand years' time.”

“For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.”

“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”