One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

Steam engines are very human. Their very weaknesses are understandable. Steam engines do not flash back and blow your face in. They do not short-circuit and ri…

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.