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

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

“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 felt all the wretcheder for the lack of a breakfast. Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.”

“Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.”

“This is day one of year one of the new epoch, -- the Epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First.”

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”