This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

Love nothing but that which comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny. For what could more aptly fit your needs?

Destiny, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fools excuse for failure.

Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size, in power, in everything a man could think of-and in that belief there was a might and a fury that would take form instantly at the moment of shock.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.