"Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow."

"I know grief has its period; but I have much to suffer..."

"Dr Priestly (sic) was once very ill with gall stones & was cured by abstinence from Butcher meat. ... fish & vegetables & butter or fat did not hurt him when taken in moderation, but his Doctors must …"

"The steam engine is my child, and I shall see it grow."

"The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what we do here."