I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

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.

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