There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.

It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use.

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.