"THAT for a friend who does not speak his mind." "Well, then, gentlemen, it is the most simple and beautiful contrivance I ever saw.

And there's only one thing to be done with it." "Patent it ?" "No; hide it; lock it up in your own breast, and try and forget it.

Your life won't be worth a week's purchase, if you set up that machine in Hillsborough." "Hillsborough is not all the world.

I can take it to some free country--America or--Russia; there's a fortune in it.

Stop; suppose I was to patent it at home and abroad, and then work it in the United States and the Canadas.