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

Little folks become their little fate.

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

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