Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

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.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.