It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

The heavenly Father first forgive us our sins for the love of fellowship.

You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.

God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

Maximum individuality within maximum community

Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

I have always looked upon the life of our Savior who descended beneath all things that He might rise above all things as an example for His followers.