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.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Little folks become their little fate.

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.

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