I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

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.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

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.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

There is always a better way.