Be a gift and a benediction.

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.