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

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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

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

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.

Little folks become their little fate.

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.

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

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 future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.