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

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

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.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

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

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

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

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

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

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

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.