The future is no more uncertain than the present.

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

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.

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

The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.