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

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

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

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

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

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

Little folks become their little fate.

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

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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

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

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