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

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.