Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

I see my trees repair their boughs.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.