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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Little folks become their little fate.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.