Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson

How can we grow in faith without hearing the word of God?

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.

Love is the secret password to every soul.

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

Every player, in his secret heart, wants to manage one day. Every fan, in the privacy of his mind, already does.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.