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

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.

Absorb ideas from every source.

Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.

Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.