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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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