Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it

We were created to work (not have jobs) for a living

Man to woman

Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.