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

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

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.