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

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

The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Little folks become their little fate.