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

If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.