Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
read more

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o'erhead.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
Say in read more

Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize
At last the fleeting Now?

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied read more

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind read more

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.