But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

Happiness is health and a short memory!

All cats are gray in the dark.

I have a long list of things that make me mad.

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.

No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.