"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."

"The great discoveries are usually obvious."

"Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it."

"Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."

"Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans."

"You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do."

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it."

"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."

"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."

"A wise man's question contains half the answer."

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."

"No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong."