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

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

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.

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

The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

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

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

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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

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

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.