Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. 

The greatest works of literature are those that combine beauty with utility.

人们为了被原谅，会去原谅别人。

To be a slave in this world is very different from being a slave in another.

By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark；the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.