James Watt

I have been much occupied with the engine, and have made some new discoveries.

I have a great aversion to controversy, and wish to live in peace.

I have been much engaged in the business of the engine, and have had little time for my family.

I have a great desire to see my daughter happily married.

Though I am not a man of words, I hope I am a man of deeds.

The steam engine is a machine for doing work, and not for making a noise.

My whole attention is now engrossed by the steam engine.

I have a most ungrateful task before me, to make a new engine.

I have been much employed in contriving a machine for lessening the consumption of steam in fire engines.

I have now a pretty clear idea of the whole affair.

I have found that the steam engine, as it is now, is a very imperfect machine.

The great object of my life has been to improve the steam engine.

Without the separate condenser, the steam engine would have remained a clumsy and wasteful machine.

I have succeeded in making a machine that will do the work of many horses.

The power of steam is immense, and its application is capable of infinite extension.

I have been much harassed with the engine, and have been obliged to lay it aside for a time.

I have been so much occupied with the steam engine that I have not had time to think of anything else.

I can think of nothing more useless than a man who can't make a good engine.

The public are very fickle, and will praise a man one day and damn him the next.

I have been a good deal plagued with the engine, and have been obliged to make some alterations in it.