The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.