Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

Observe, Remember, Compare.

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.