There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.