In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

Don't worry— you see, to some you are magic.

Tithing is an open door to wealth.

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

With us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Will’s hand looked brown and sunburnt by contrast, their fingers dovetailed together like piano keys.

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.