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

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.

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.

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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

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

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

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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

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

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

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