Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.