To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world.

In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much.

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.