“Experience is the teacher of all things”

“A mighty flame evolves from a tiny spark”

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man”

“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own”

“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring”

“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible”