Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: January 14, 1801 - April 21, 1866
Birthday: January 14
Death: April 21
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?
topic: Photography, Country, Art, Dear Ones, Chloroform, Tolerable
