The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

You may not need to try to change. Just wait and it will happen.

Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.