Quote  Category: Photography “Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has 'cast up' in my time — this art by which even the 'poor' can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.” - Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866) Letter, 21 Oct 1859; in The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, 1970 - Scottish daughter of physician, writer at age 14, married Thomas Carlyle 1826. Email this quote to a friend! If there is an error in this quote please let us know. Famous Quotes © ® All rights reserved.