No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes.

I have always kept strictly within the lines of commercially useful inventions.

I have never had any time to put on electrical wonders, valuable simply as novelties to catch the popular fancy.

_I like it_," continued the great inventor.

"I don't know any other reason.
Anything I have begun is always on my mind, and I am not easy while away from it until it is finished." [Illustration: Thomas Alva Edison] A man who thus gives himself wholly to his work is certain to accomplish something; and if he have ability and common sense, his success will be great.
How Bulwer wrestled with the fates to change his apparent destiny! His first novel was a failure; his early poems were failures; and his youthful speeches provoked the ridicule of his opponents.