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.

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

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

Little folks become their little fate.

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.