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

Little folks become their little fate.

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

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