I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

I have had a lot of success with failure

It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.

I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.