The Time Machine

by H.G. Wells

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.