What Hath God Wrought.

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.

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.

Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

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.

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.

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

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

I'd rather teach you how to make BREAD than give you a SLICE from my BREAD.

I want to drag knives over my skin, just so that I can feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough to do that.

The person you are in the dark will eventually be the person you are in the light.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.

...The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

Well, I'm backed by a very rich Jew. Yeah!! Yes, I am! His Name is Jesus. I'm backed by Him.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.