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.

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

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

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

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

Little folks become their little fate.

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 is no more uncertain than the present.

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

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

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

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.