We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

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.

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