My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

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

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

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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