Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.