It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem - and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas - and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.