A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
[Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit read more

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
[Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
Should frame life read more

You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
Should frame life so that at some future hour
Fact and his dreamings meet.

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by read more

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted
and dried,
When the oldest colours have read more

When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted
and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has
died,
We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it--lie down for an aeon
or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.

Making all future fruits of all the pasts.

Making all future fruits of all the pasts.

With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing
cold, nor any briars there . read more

With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing
cold, nor any briars there . . . this place we call the Bosom of
Abraham.