My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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

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.