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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

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

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.