Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.