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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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

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

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.