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

Absorb ideas from every source.

Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

My mother was the making of me.

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!

The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead.