I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. - Edward Everett Hale

in old times inventors were not always treated very kindly. If people thought they were sorcerers, or in league with the Devil, they did not care much for the invention.

Why were all these salutes fired, the world over? Why was every capital illuminated? Why was there a holiday given to every school ? Halfholidays had been the universal custom for years before. It was simply, you see, that a tenth part of the people in the world had shown in some way worth belief that they meant — To look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in, — and
To lend a hand.

I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.