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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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

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

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 future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

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