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

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 is no more uncertain than the present.

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

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

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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

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

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

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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

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

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.