"I have spent more time fixing other men's mistakes than making my own."

"The people in London are all steam engine mad."

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

"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…"

"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…"