Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

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.

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

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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