Little folks become their little fate.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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