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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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

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.