"We should try ourselves to forget that they are deaf. We should try to teach them to forget that they are deaf."

"The inventor is a man who looks at the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve them."

"I have always been a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it."

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

"I have never been accused of plagiarism, but I have been accused of being a plagiarist."