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

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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

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

Little folks become their little fate.

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

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

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.

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

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

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.