On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

We live, but a world has passed away With the years that perished to make us men.

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It is not the streets that exist. It is the…

Cities and Thrones and Powers, Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die: But, as new buds put forth To glad new men, Out of the spent an…