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.

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

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

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

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

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

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

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

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

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

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

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