The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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

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.

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