You know I can't really explain why I picked up this book. Well I thought I heard or read something about a H.G. Wells' story about a character traveling through time and something about the thought that if he can bring any two books to the future, what would it be?
I wish I can make this post more interesting and tell you what my two picks are... but the only thing I can tell you that it wouldn't be the Bible or the Tao Te Ching or whatever. I also actually never found that part of the story, so there goes that. Anyway, this book is pretty simple and I'm sure everyone knows the who (the time traveller), the where, and what. So like all classics there is some great insight involved. Definitely another story that supports how there are plenty of underlying truths in fiction. (I say this cause I never thought prior... "I only like to read non-fiction" type). A couple quotes that reign:

`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. '

`I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword, it had attained its hopes--to come to this at last. Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety. The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And a great quiet had followed. '