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

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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

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

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

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.

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 comes like an unwelcome guest.

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

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

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