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

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

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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