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

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.

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

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.

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