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.

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.