The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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

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.