"I would rather face a loaded cannon than settle a patent dispute."

"He says that he got the idea from a lobster's tail."

"I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have—POWER."

"When once the idea of the separate condensation was started, all these improvements followed as corollaries in quick succession, so that in the course of one or two days the invention was thus far com…"

"I had gone on a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green [of Glasgow] by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street—had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at t…"