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

"I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon, early in 1765... I was thinking upon the engine at the time... when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush in…"

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

"My great success in life has been owing to my having paid attention to every detail."

"In the mean time do all you can to cure him of Bashfullness which will ruin him in this impudent age; but beware he be not led into the opposite vice of self conceit or arrogance which is 1000 times w…"