"You can never plan the future by the past" — Edmund Burke

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time

Source: The Builders, The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future

Source: A Woman of No Importance (1893)

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

The present is never our end; the past and the present are our means; the future alone is our end.

Source: Pensees, fragment 172 (1670)

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines

Edmund Burke Quote