Human history is in essence a history of ideas. - H. G. Wells

"Fine hospitality," said I, "to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you."

[The invisible man said: ]"After a time I crawled home, took some food and a strong dose of strychnine, and went to sleep in my clothes on my unmade bed. Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man."
----"It's the devil," said Kemp. "It's the palaeolithic in a bottle."
--"I awoke vastly invigorated and rather irritable. You know?"
----"I know the stuff."

"We were making the future," he said, "and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!"