It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
What one man can think, another man can do.
It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.