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

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Little folks become their little fate.

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

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

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

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

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

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.