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

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

When one door closes, another one opens.

I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

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