The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

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

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

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

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

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