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

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

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

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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

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

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

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

Little folks become their little fate.

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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.

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