The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. – H. G. Wells
Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. – H. G. Wells
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it? – H. G. Wells
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. – H. G. Wells
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. – H. G. Wells
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. – H. G. Wells
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. – H. G. Wells
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. – H. G. Wells
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. – H. G. Wells
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own. – H. G. Wells
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. – H. G. Wells
