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

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.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.