Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
He who laughs, lasts!
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.