Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. — H. G. Wells
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. — H. G. Wells
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. — 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 only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand — H. G. Wells
If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. — 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
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
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. — H. G. Wells
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own. — H. G. Wells
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. — H. G. Wells