小说是一面照向社会的镜子，反映了它的缺陷和美丽。

Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind， as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another， yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The process of perception is not a simple matter of recording sensory data but involves the active organization of that data into meaningful patterns.