The future is the shape of things to come.

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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.