I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

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 world began without man, and it will end without him.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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