Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
Thomas CarlyleThe grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
Thomas Carlyle