To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.

I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.

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.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.