The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Little folks become their little fate.

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

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

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