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

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

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

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

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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.

. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And read more

. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.

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.

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?

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind read more

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.