I am much obliged by the favorable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.

Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

I can push them away, fight them, or ignore them but family is something you can never get rid of.

My favorite place in the world is next to you.

Don’t be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose.

Ignorance is relatively easy to cure

In life it is difficult to find a way of life, but later is much more difficult to stay on that road... So before any decisions think carefully.

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.

I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.