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

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

Be not the slave of your own past.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.