And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.