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I gathered from Hollond that he was always conscious of corridors and halls and alleys in Space, shifting, but shifting according to inexorable laws.
Space (1912)
Once again problems cannot be comfortably limited, for science has brought the nations into an uneasy bondage to each other.
Augustus (1937)
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.
The Power-House (1916)
We had our pride shattered, and without humility there can be no humanity.
Canadian Occasions (1940)
Oh, it sounds ridiculous, I know, in Britain in the twentieth century, but I learned in the war that civilization anywhere is a very thin crust.
Huntingtower (1922)
Her voice had a thrill in it like music, frosty music.
Huntingtower (1922)
Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failure of our neighbors but their successes.
Canadian Occasions (1940)
There come moments to every man when he is thankful to be alive, and every breath drawn is a delight; so at that hour I praised my Maker for His good earth, and for sparing me to rejoice in it.
Salute to Adventurers (1915)
I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.
The House of the Four Winds (1935)
I must get off for a bit or I'll… or get up and propose a national monument to Guy Fawkes or something silly.
Too young for wife, too old for child, but the ripe age for comrade — and such a comrade, for there was a boy's gallantry in her eyes and something of a child's confident fearlessness.
Midwinter (1923)
History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
If the Lord sends us war, we have got to face it like men, but God forbid we should manufacture war, and use it as an escape from our domestic difficulties. You can't expect a blessing on that.
The Path of the King (1921)
We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.
The Path of the King (1921)
That kind of man is not the danger. He is a bit of the machine, a party to the compact. It is the men who stand outside it that are to be reckoned with, the artists in discovery who will never use their knowledge till they can use it with full effect.
The Power-House (1916)
[T]here was never an army that did not accuse its enemies of barbarity.
Witch Wood (1927)
They were happy years, the four I spent in Glasgow, for I was young and ardent, and had not yet suffered the grave miscarriage of hope which is our human lot.
Salute to Adventurers (1915)
Time, they say, must the best of us capture,
And travel and battle and gems and gold
No more can kindle the ancient rapture,
For even the youngest of hearts grows old.
Prester John (1910)
You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
The Power-House (1916)
[A] falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.
Witch Wood (1927)