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

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

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

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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.

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

Little folks become their little fate.

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

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

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

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.

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

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