The world began without man, and it will end without him.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

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

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.