Alexander Graham Bell — "The telephone is a great invention, but it is not for everyone."

"Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attain…"

"Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone, and following the ruts of conventionality. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so, …"

"The telephone will be in every city, town, and village in the United States."

"I had made up my mind to find that for which I was searching even if it required the remainder of my life. After innumerable failures I finally uncovered the principle for which I was searching, and I…"

"The telephone may be used to talk to the dead, and the dead may be used to talk to the living."