Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

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

When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.

If there is a better solution... find it.

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.