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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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

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

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

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.