The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.