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

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

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

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

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

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

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

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.

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

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