Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.
— Samuel Morse
The most floundering Samuel Morse quotes that are simple and will have a huge impact on you
If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.
Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.
Science and art are not opposed.
I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter;
my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler
Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.
Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.
It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.
What God hath wrought?
My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
