Who said “The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does…”?

“The future is purchased by the present.”

“If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.”

“The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.”

“The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.”

“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”

“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”

“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”

“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”

“Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.”

“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”

“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”