"I have always been a firm believer in the power of hard work and perseverance."

"Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that y…"

"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit…"

"I am a believer in unconscious cerebration. The brain is working all the time, though we do not know it. At night it follows up what we think in the daytime. When I have worked a long time on one thin…"

"The main object of the education of the deaf is to fit them to live in the world of a hearing-speaking people."