Who said “Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age…”?

“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”

“Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.”

“Fear is a great inventor.”

“We can invent only with memory.”

“The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.”

“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”

“Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.”

“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”

“One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.”

“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”