A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious... I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.