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

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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.

Little folks become their little fate.

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

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

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.

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

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