"Steam is the friend of man. Steam engines are very human. Their very weaknesses are understandable. Steam engines do …"

"One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff. There is a perio…"

"A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on."

"To those who live and toil and lowly die, Who past beyond and leave no lasting trace, To those from whom our queen Pr…"

"It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark."

"A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knott…"

"It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold."

"The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool."

"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow."

"Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some …"