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.

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

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

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

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

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.