The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers -- shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle -- to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.