When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

That which costs little is less valued.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.