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

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

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

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

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.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.