Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.