He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

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.

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.