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

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

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

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.

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.

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

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

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

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.