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

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.

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.

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

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

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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

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

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

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

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