Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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.

Little folks become their little fate.

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

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