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!

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions