Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

Success is the result of hard work.

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.