He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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

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

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.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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

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

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

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

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

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