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

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

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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

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

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

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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

Little folks become their little fate.

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.