As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.