One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

Money is coined liberty.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.