I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.

The media's trying to attack my administration because they know we are following through on pledges that we made and they're not happy about it for whatever reason.

Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.

Grief is a circular staircase.

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

Plagiarism is basic to all culture

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.