I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

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

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

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.