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.

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.

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.

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

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

Happiness is a perceptual reality, not an absolute certainty.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Love is divine act that can transform and bring a change of heart.

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

God didn't say, 'Be still and feel that I am God,' He said, 'Be still and know'.

Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.

We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.