I have had a lot of success with failure

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

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.

I try not to invent things that people don't need.