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

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

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

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

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

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.

Little folks become their little fate.

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

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

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

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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.