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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

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

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

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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

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.

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

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

Little folks become their little fate.

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

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