Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.